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For this week's manuscript, we're posting a couple of pages from Carta de el secretaro, Antonio Perez, al duque de Lerma de la manera que seharia de governar en la privanza.
The manuscript was produced between 1568 and 1579. It's quite a long letter written by Antonio Perez, secretary to Philip II of Spain, addressed to the duke of Lerma, providing advice for princes on governing from privilege, illustrated with examples from the Spanish court. Find it in the MERLIN catalog.
Ellis Library will close early today, Saturday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. due to icy weather conditions. Please check the library branch web pages for information about library branch closings. Ellis Reference desk will close at noon. Phone and virtual reference will be monitored until 3:00.
Now, when you search PubMed from MU Libraries pages or by using this special PubMed link, you’ll notice an Available at MU filter in the upper right area of the results screen.
The Available at MU filter will show you what’s available online or in a campus library.
You can use Available at MU when you’re in a time crunch and just want to see what’s available on campus right now. Available at MU is far more comprehensive and accurate than PubMed’s standard “Text Availability” filters because it knows what MU Libraries subscribes to in print and electronically.
To use this filter when you’re logged into your personal My NCBI account, you’ll need to create a custom filter. From a PubMed results page, click on “Manage Filters” and then “Create custom filter.” The query terms are:
Loprovumochsclib[sb] OR free full text [sb]
Save filter as: Available at MU
Any questions? Ask Kate.
Do you need help with a paper? Writing tutors are available starting Jan. 26th during the following times:
Sun 4pm-9pm
Mon 11am-9pm
Tue 11am-9pm
Wed 11am-9pm
Thu 4pm-9pm
Stop by for a free, walk-in session for help with any part of the writing process, from brainstorming to revising drafts. No appointment necessary!
To register online, click the class title. If these dates and times are bad for you, please feel free to email brekhusr at missouri dot edu with a preferred time. We will make an effort to accommodate you. The March workshop will be incorporated into graduate student workshops that month; date is tba.
All workshops are in-person unless marked as online. Zotero workshops meet in 213 Ellis Library, which is the computer classroom on the north side of the building on the 2nd floor, across from the main reading room.
Happy Manuscript Monday! This week's offering is a letter from the papal chancery of Pope Leo X, written in Rome on March 27, 1517, to Ottaviano Fregoso, Doge of Genoa. The letter is signed Jacopo Sadoleto as papal secretary and was written by the papal scribe, Ludovico degli Arrighi. In addition to being a papal scribe, Arrighi was a type designer and author. His typefaces, based on his own elegant script, have influenced the design of fonts and letter forms from the Renaissance to the present.
Pamphlets – literature published in an unbound, ephemeral format – are one of the strengths of Special Collections. The collections contain thousands of sermons, speeches, tracts, and political writings from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, many of which are very scarce. We'll share a pamphlet each week to highlight these holdings.
This week's selection comes from the Fourth of July Orations Collection. It's one of eight known copies, all in the United States, and contains exactly what it says it does – the text of a Fourth of July address given in 1824.
The Fourth of July Orations collection is a great source for studying the development of American identity and politics. Many speeches, including this one, comment on contemporary world events and urge leaders to stick with the values and policies espoused by the country's founders.
Newburyport, [Mass.] : Printed at the Herald office [by Ephraim W. Allen], 1824. Find it in the MERLIN catalog.
This semester, we're kicking off a new series. Every Monday, we'll share a page or two from the department's manuscript holdings – just enough to give you a glimpse into the collections.
First up: the oldest manuscript in the collections, a fragment of De orthographia by Bede from the 9th century (Fragmenta Manuscripta #002). Fragmenta Manuscripta is a collection of leaves, clippings, and binder's waste assembled by bookseller John Bagford in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. It's fully digitized – find out more about it at Digital Scriptorium.
Stay tuned next Monday for another manuscript from the collections.
The DVDs previously located in 114 Ellis Library (Current Periodicals Reading Room) have been moved to the south end of the reference stacks, to the east of Information Commons 2. Don't know where that is? Ask at the Circulation Desk or the Reference Desk.
These materials were moved out of room 114 to make room for staff from Jesse Hall who will be moving temporarily into Ellis Library in the spring while Jesse Hall is being renovated.
