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• HBLL digitizes a medieval manuscript
  Posted May 3, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  L. Tom Perry Special Collections holds around two dozen medieval manuscripts (or manuscript fragments).  Recently, the library digitized one of these treasures: an English manuscript dating from 1343 entitled Regimen Animarum.  The manuscript was written for the Archbishopric of Canterbury.  The text is in Latin and is a religious manual for ecclesiastical officials, covering preaching, [...]

• Online resources from the JFC Harrison Collection
  Posted January 4, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  The Harold B. Lee Library has scanned and made available the British Social Periodicals held in the JFC Harrison collection online at the Internet Archive.  The collection includes full-text scans of periodicals related to political, cultural, and social movements, including temperance, free-thought, and working-class educational associations.  The digital collection also includes literary items related to [...]

• Updated list of British social history periodicals
  Posted April 20, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  The list of periodicals related to British social history has recently been updated to include single-issue holdings and other titles from the J.F.C. Harrison Collection.  The newly-added periodicals cover such topics as free thought, Methodism, and temperance.

• Harrison Collection periodicals now online
  Posted March 29, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  A select number of British sociopolitical periodicals from the JFC Harrison Collection have recently been scanned and added to the Internet Archive.  A total of 16 volumes from ten periodicals are now available.  Titles include the annual journal of the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society, John Bright’s Speeches on questions of public policy, and several titles [...]

• Philip II letters now available online
  Posted September 22, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  The library recently completed its newest digital project, the digitization of a collection of letters from Philip II, King of Spain, related to naval wars with France and England during the period 1592-1597. These letters were previously available in incomplete black and white facsimiles. The letters have been re-scanned in full color and the digital [...]

• New digital collection in French history
  Posted July 22, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  One of Special Collection’s best resources in early modern history is our French Political Pamphlets collection.  It consists of over 2,100 short works printed in France between 1550 and 1650.  These pamphlets describe and react to the social, political, religious and economic issues and events of the period, including France’s Wars of Religion, the Edict [...]