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In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

Remounted page, British Library Cotton Vitellius A. XV

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs.

Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

The books remained here until the British Library moved to St Pancras in 1998.

Under his supervision, the British Museum Library ( now the British Library ) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.

The departure of the British Library to a new site at St Pancras, finally achieved in 1998, provided the space needed for the books.

Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library ( the British Library ) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

* Internet Archive Digitised version of Andrew Murray Catalogue of the Doubleday collection of Lepidoptera () Part I. British Lepidoptera. Part II.

) Catalogue of the Jain Manuscripts of the British Library.

He presented his find in 1896 to Frederic Kenyon in the British Museum's Department of Manuscripts.

This had also been a major reason why the British Museum had rejected the map in 1957, the Keeper of Manuscripts having detected elements of handwriting style not developed until the nineteenth century.

* British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts entry

( On manuscripts, and artistic style ) Nigel Morgan, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, Volume 4: Early Gothic Manuscripts, Part 1 1190-1250, Harvey Miller Ltd, London, 1982, ISBN 0-19-921026-8

* Richardson Archive in the British Library Manuscripts Collections

* Hardwicke Archive in the British Library Manuscripts Collections

* British Library Podcast Peter Nichols discusses the archiving of his own papers in the British Library Manuscripts Collections as part of the international Manuscripts Matter conference.

* Brown ( 2007 ); Brown, Michelle P., Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age, 2007, British Library, ISBN 978-0-7123-0680-5

Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum ), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Augustine, probably alluding to the passage already mentioned: " Est et alius cursus quem refert beatus augustinus episcopus quod beatus ambrosius propter hereticorum ordinem dissimilem composuit quem in italia antea de cantabatur " ( There is yet another Cursus which the blessed Bishop Augustine says that the blessed Ambrose composed because of the existence of a different use of the heretics, which previously used to be sung in Italy ).

* British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts entry

He bequeathed to the British Museum the valuable Egerton Manuscripts, consisting of 67 manuscripts dealing with the literature of France and Italy, and £ 12, 000 to establish the Egerton Fund from which the Museum could purchase additional manuscripts.

* The British Library Kharosthi Fragments, The British Library / University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.

Manuscripts of the work are today at British Library and Cambridge University Library.

Waley was appointed Assistant Keeper of Oriental Prints and Manuscripts at the British Museum in 1913.

Much of his collection of documents, manuscripts, artifacts, and artworks is now in the British Museum and the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library, though part of it remains in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Chennai ( Madras ).

* British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts entry

* British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Digital Access Signalling System 1 ( DASS1 ) is a proprietary protocol defined by British Telecom to provide ISDN services in the United Kingdom.

Digital Access Signalling System 2 ( DASS2 ) is an obsolescent protocol defined by British Telecom for digital links to PSTN based on ISDN.

Prinz and Prinztronic were own-brand trade names of the British Dixons photographic and electronic goods stores retail chain, which was later rebranded as Currys Digital stores, and became part of DSG International.

ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television broadcaster, which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network.

A consortium of Carlton Television, Granada Television and British Sky Broadcasting won the auction as British Digital Broadcasting ( BDB ).

British Digital Broadcasting logo ( 1997 – 1998 )

ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.

In 2008 the site won the BT Digital Music Award for Best Music Magazine, plus the Association of Online Publishers ' Best Editorial Team Award, the British Society of Magazine Editors Website Editor of the Year and the Record Of The Day Award for Best Music Website.

A British company has made a breakthrough by introducing an electronically controlled hydraulic motor / pump, the Digital Displacement motor / pump, that is highly efficient at all speed ranges and loads making small applications of petro-hydraulic hybrids feasible.

With the increased rollout of Digital Audio Broadcasting ( DAB ) between 1995 and 2002, BBC Radio launched several new digital-only stations BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC 7 in 2002 on 16 August, 11 March and 15 December respectively — the first for " new black British music ", the second as a source of performance-based " alternative " music, the latter specialising in archive classic comedy shows, drama and children's programmes.

However, in the absence of any subsidy for the Sky Digibox in Ireland – viewers in the UK could avail of both a Sky subsidy and one from British Interactive Broadcasting – the cost to initially acquire Sky Digital equipment was very expensive ( IEP 450 ) and subscriber numbers did not rise until both these subsidies were introduced into Ireland in 2000.

Various Digital Notices to Mariners systems are available on the market such as Digitrace ( http :// www. marinepress. com / mpc / index. html ), Voyager ( www. tgnsvoyager. com ), ChartCo ( www. http :// www. chartco. com /) to correct British Admiralty charts as well as NOAA charts.

In 2003, these journals were given to The British Library, London, and in 2008, they were made available online as The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive.

On 16 June 2009, she was appointed the UK Government's Digital Inclusion Champion to head a two year campaign to make the British public more ' tech savvy '.

In 1997 Cameron played up the Company's prospects for digital terrestrial television, for which it joined with Granada television and BSkyB to form British Digital Broadcasting.

In addition, its excellence in digital imagery and animation has earned Digital Domain multiple British Academy ( BAFTA ) Awards, and Prix Ars Electronica and Prix Pixel INA awards.

Other organisations for the promotion of electronic literature include trAce Online Writing Community, a British organisation, started in 1995, that has fostered electronic literature in the UK, Dichtung Digital, a journal of criticism of electronic literature in English and German, and ELINOR, a network for electronic literature in the Nordic countries, which provides a directory of Nordic electronic literature.

Modeled on the British ITV Digital, it was founded in October 1999.

Digital Image Design ( DID ) was a British video game developer founded by Martin Kenwright and Phillip Allsopp in 1989 and was originally based in Runcorn, Cheshire in England.

The DEUCE ( Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine ) was one of the earliest British commercially available computers, built by English Electric from 1955.