Rare Material in MU Libraries Special Collections (Collection)
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A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle
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On spine: Fysshynge wyth an angle.
"Printed ... after the text of the Boke of St Albans 'enprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn the Worde ... MCCCCLxxxxvi.' This edition consists of 150 copies on paper ... and 25 copies on vellum." This copy printed on paper.
Set in type by Sir John Hornby and Meysey Turton and printed by the first named.
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Anakreontos Tēiou melē
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Title in Greek characters, transliterated; text in Latin and Greek., Printer's device on title page., Renouard, 115.1; Adams, A-1001; Sandys, II, 176., "Anacreon was one of the nine lyric poets whom the scholars of the Library of Alexandria judged to be worthy of close study. Though a native of the city of Teos, he spent much of his career at the courts of the tyrants Polycrates of Samos and Hipparchus of Athens, where he was particularly esteemed for his drinking songs and hymns. This edition of Anacreon’s poems was printed by Henri Estienne, part of the Estienne (or Stephanus) printing dynasty. It features the famous Grecs du roi typeface, designed by Claude Garamond for King Francis I of France"--MU Libraries Special Collections.
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Aristotelous Peri kosmou, pros Alexandrou
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ESTC: "The attribution to Aristotle is doubtful.", First five words of title transliterated from Greek., First and last leaves blank?; lacking in IU copy. IU-R., ESTC, T149817., Latin and Greek text., "Though long attributed to Aristotle, the De mundo (On the Universe) is the work of an unknown philosopher who probably lived within a hundred or so years of Aristotle’s death in 322 BCE. This edition of the De mundo was printed by the Scottish printer Robert Foulis, whose books are among the most technically accomplished of the 18th century. Appointed printer to Glasgow University in 1743, Foulis went on to become one of the most important printers of the Scottish Enlightenment"--MU Libraries Special Collections.
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Book of hours (use of Rome)
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A nearly complete fifteenth-century Book of Hours from the Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. In addition to the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, and Office of the Dead, the manuscript contains unusual Marian litanies., Fols. 109v: Pars prima. Graded kalendar beginning with March. Dominican saints Dominic and Peter Martyr in red, alongside the Venetian saints George and Mark, as well as SS. John and Paul. Curious are Pelagia the Courtesan and Sabba -- Fol. 10r: Latin prayer, inc. "Deus qui ad imitandum," added to an orginally blank folio -- Fols. 10v-122v: Officium Beate Marie, of Dominican Use; fol. 10v Matins, 35r Lauds, 63 Prime, 72r Terce, 79r Sext, 85v none, 93 Vespers, 108r Compline -- Fol. 11: Blank, a replacement for a missing illuminated folio ; fols. 119r-122v: Seasonal instructions -- Fols. 123r-223v: Office of the Dead, for Dominican use -- Fols. 224r-244v: Penitential psalms -- Fols. 245r-257v: Kyrie and litany with ancillary texts -- Fols. 258r-261v: Prayers -- Fols. 261v-267r: Shorter Office of the Cross -- Fols. 267r-270v: Added texts, including indulgenced prayers -- Fols. 271r-294r: Pars secunda. Office of the Glorious Virgin = Officium gloriose virginis, not to be confused with the Office of the Virgin found at the beginning of the manuscript -- Fols. 294r-309r: Marian litany : Seventy names of the Virgin, with prayer for male use -- Fols. 309r-322r: Marian litany in honor of the most glorious Virgin -- Fols. 322v-330v: Prayers in Italian., Title supplied by cataloger., This manuscript has two sections, the second having been added to the first within a generation of the book's manufacture. The first section of the manuscript (fols. 1-270) contains a standard Italian Dominican Book of Hours with a kalendar, Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Office of the Dead, Penitential psalms, and Short Hours of the Cross. Exceptionally, unusual, however, are the contents of section two, which opens with a rare Office of the Glorious Virgin, followed by two Marian litanies. Such litanies multiplied in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these follow the standard pattern of calling on the Virgin by her attributes, as a mother, brides, spouse, intercessor, etc. The Italian prayers at the end of the volume perfectly express vernacular piety in Venice around 1500., Collation: ii + I⁶ (wants 1,2,5) + II⁸ (wants the original final folio. 7 originally blank with an added prayer; 88 a modern vellum replacement, blank) + III⁸ (wants 1) + IV⁸ - XXXV⁸ + XXXVI⁴ (one leaf missing between XXXV and XXXVI) + XXXVII¹⁰ (beginning of added section) - XLIII¹⁰. Only five folios appear to be missing., 10 lines (first part), 16 lines (kalendar), 11 lines (second part). On parchment., Written in diminutive, elegant Gothic bookhand, with occasional cadels on the penwork (one enclosing a smiling human face on fol. 82v). Catchwords throughout, some decorative. Written on parchment., Decoration: Fols. 122r, 224r, 260v have three large painted initials in pink on gold backgrounds with elaborate marginal extensions in blue, red, green, and pink, highlighted by gold bezants, and having infilled interiors (one with a gold cross, 260v); fols. 35v, 63r, 72r, 79r, 85v, 92v, 108r, 140v, 198v all have large multi-line initials in red or blue with elaborate contrasting penwork ; dozens of two-line initials in red or blue with elaborate contrasting penwork trailing in the margins ; hundreds of one-line initials alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork., Stitch holes on folio 140 suggest that a devotional relic was once sewn into this page., Text in Latin with some prayers in Italian., Binding: 18th-century full brown calf over pasteboard with a gilt stamp of the Virgin holding the Christ Child. The straps are missing, but all the brass mounts are still present. The spine was re-backed in the nineteenth century and retains the eighteenth-century cover with raised bands. Binding was recently professionally renewed., Provenance: Abbey Church of SS. John and Paul (Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo or San Zanipolo), Venice, quite possibly from the time of the manuscript's execution near the end of the fifteenth century; the name "Sanera" or "Sanen" and a date, "A[nno] 1320 Circ."; John Chapple, probably the author of A short history of the Abbey Church of St. Alban (1882). Purchased from King Alfred's Notebook [bookseller], Cayce, South Carolina, March 2015., Title on bookseller's invoice: Devotions from a Venetian convent
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Buchholzschnitt im 15. Jahrhundert in Original-Beispielen. : 55 Inkunabelproben
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Author: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig, 1855-1932.
Title: Der Buchholzschnitt im 15. Jahrhundert in Original-Beispielen. : 55 Inkunabelproben: Deutscher, Schweizer, Niederländischer, Tschechischer und Italienischer Pressen.
Published: München : Weiss, 1929.
Notes: In portfolio. Limited edition. 100 copies; 50 have a German text and 50 have an English text.
WorldCat number: 12002508
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Comedias famosas, volume 2
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Handwritten notes just inside the front cover, source unknown; added at end of digitized extent, NOTE: Duplicated pages at end of book (p0450.tiff through p0457.tif) are present in the physical item and not an error in digitization.
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Confederate Currency Collection
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In 1912, the United States Treasury department gifted the University of Missouri libraries a collection of bills from the Confederate States of America. This collection includes 135 monetary notes, all using the Criswell Numbering System.
“Confederate currency was first issued at the beginning of the Civil War and used widely in the South as a legitimate means to purchase goods and services. Some currency was printed by the Confederate States of America as a whole, some by individual states, and some by private banks. The bills in our collection were all issued by the Confederate States of America. Due to various printers, confederate currency tended to vary from printing to printing and state to state. Bills issued by the C.S.A. were hand signed and individually numbered by the Treasurer and Register, however, the duty became taxing with the number of bills produced, so secretaries were hired to sign the bills in later printings. It was not uncommon for notes to be printed on a single side or cut unevenly. Ultimately, by the end of the war, Confederate currency was nearly worthless, in part due to forgery as well as the loss of confidence in the Confederacy” (MU Special Collections Website)
This collection includes 50 cent, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollar bills. All the bills in this collection were printed in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. They were printed from 1861 – 1864 and were signed by a variety of treasurers and registers. The bills are in various physical conditions, with many having wrinkles, holes, stains, and tears. Images on the bills included many famous Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis, R.M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin, and Lucy Pickens. They also depicted symbols and figures the Confederacy considered important, such as bales of cotton, the goddess of war Minerva, and the capital building in Richmond, Virginia.
This collection was digitized in November of 2019 using a Plustek OpticBook A3000 Plus. They were cropped and straightened using Adobe Photoshop. Photos are in color with an optical resolution of 600 dpi.
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Cuneiform Tablets (Collection)
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Special Collections holds eight cuneiform tablets whose exact provenance is unknown. Seven of the tablets were donated to MU Libraries by the now-defunct Ernest McClary Todd Museum, formerly a part of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. They probably came to the University in the early twentieth century.
Tablet MULC 8 (Z113 .P3 1#1 item 1a) was acquired as part of the Pages from the Past collection, which was a portfolio of leaves and artifacts sold by Foliophiles in the 1960s.
Six of the tablets date from the Ur III period (2100-2000 BCE), are written in Sumerian, and most likely come from the Umma and Drehem archives. Identifications, translations, and dates for these six tablets were determined in 2012 by Changyu Liu of the University of Heidelberg.
The remaining two tablets are thought to be from the Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BCE) and are currently unedited.
Images and complete information about the tablets can be accessed at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at the University of California Los Angeles. High resolution scans are available to researchers; email: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu
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Dear mother at the door: song
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Words by Samuel B. Letson / Music by Claribel, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A438471/datastream/PDF/view
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Ek tōn Aristotelous kai Theophrastou
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Title in Greek characters, transliterated; text in Greek., Commentary by Henri Estienne., Printer's device on title page., Renouard, 116.3; Adams, A-1964
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Extrait des Registres du Parlement
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Extrait des Registres du Parlement, du jeudi 29 décembre 1763 du matin, toutes les chambres assemblées. -- Du samedi 31 xbre 1763. -- Du mercredi quatre janvier 1764. -- Du lundi neuf janvier 1764. -- Du mercredi 11 janvier 1764. -- Du samedi 14 janvier 1764. -- Du lundi seize janvier 1764. -- Du mercredi 18 janvier 1764 -- Du lundi 21 janvier 1764 -- Du samedi 21 janvier 1764 -- Extrait des Registres du Parlement , du jeudi 29 décembre 1763 du matin, toutes les chambres assemblées.-- Extrait des Registres des deliberations du Parlement de Toulouse, du mardi 13 décembre 1763 -- Du 14 xbre 1763 -- Du mercredi 16 xbre 1763 -- Du 17 xbre 1763 --Du vendredi 30 xbre 1763 (Paris) -- Du samedi 31 xbre 1763 -- Du mercredi 11 jan[v]ier 1764 -- Du mercredi 18 janvier 1764 -- Du lundi 23 janvier 1764 -- Du samedi 3 mars 1764 -- Du jeudi 8 mars 1764 -- Du lundi 28 may 1764 -- Résultat du travail -- Travail de M.M. les Commisaires -- Mémoire historique sur l'origine, l'essence et les droits de la Pairie et du Parlement, Cour des Pairs -- Pièces justificatives -- Ordonnances -- Erections en Pairies -- Procédures, ârrets et jugements -- Autorités -- Extrait des Registres du Parlement de Paris, du me[r]credi 24 avril 1765 -- Du vendredi 26 avril 1765 -- Arrêté du Parlement de Rouen du 10 août 1764 -- Arrêté du Parlement de Grenoble du 22 mars 1765 -- Arrêté du Parlement de Dauphiné du 22 mars 1765 -- Arrêté du Parlement de Rouen du 19 août 1765 -- Arrêté du Parlement de Paris du 27 août 1770 -- Table des pièces., [Parlement de Paris]. Mémoire historique sur l'origine, l'essence et les droits de la Pairie et du Parlement, Cour des Pairs / la rédaction de ce mémoire et du résultat du travail est généralement attribué ... à M. Drouyn de Vaudeuil., Ms. codex., Script : Written by 2 scribes. Scribe 1 -- main body of the text scribe 2 --notes and comments., Origin : Written in France in the second half of the 18th cent. apparently for Mr. Drouyn de Vaudeuil, Conseiller des Enquêtes et Requêtes, Parlement de Paris at 1763 and premier président du Parlement de Toulouse 1769-1771., Bookplate : Ex bibliotheca iacobi Flach in Collegio Franciae Professoris MDCCCLXXXVIII., On verso of cover written in black ink in minute script apparently by J. Flach : Voyez le jugement que porte le president de [Ministère ?] 1er M. de Voudeuil, dans son [1 word illegible] avec Mme de Pompadour [Remontrances ?], T.ii. Introduction page xxxvi, On verso of cover pasted in citation apparently from a bookseller's advertisement : Mémoire historique sur l' origine, l'essence et les droits de la Pairie et du Parlement, Cour des Pairs. In-fol. cart. Manuscrit du XVIII siècle comprenant environ 400 pp. Ce mémoire, attribué à M. Drouyn de Valdeuil [sic], premier président du parlement de Toulouse, est suivi de pièces justificatives, d'un grand intérêt pour l'histoire de la France, et de plusieurs familles illustres du royaume. En tête du volume se trouve un Extrait des registres du Parlement de Paris, comprenant diverses séances, du jeudi 29 décembre 1763 au mardi 29 mai 1764.
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Fidamante
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On t.p. "m̳o̳" and "o̳r̳" are superscript., Dedication signed: Antonio Amici., Engraved t.p., head pieces and initials., Signatures: A-I⁸, K-Z⁸, 2A-2F⁸, 2G⁴.
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Icones embryonum humanorum
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20 engravings on [2] leaves of plates., Note about author: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring was a polymath similar in intellectual gifts and broad interests to his friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, receiving his degree in 1778. Using his skills as an illustrator and an acute observer, he developed a classification for the cranial nerves which superseded that of Thomas Willis. He identified and named the twelve cranial nerves and was the first to draw attention to the white matter of the brain, refuting the classification of the spinal cord as another cranial nerve. Icones Embryonum Humanorum consists of skillfully engraved plates, each with several depicitions of the human embryo showing development and growth over time. The engraver and artist Kock was personally trained by Sömmerring, who acknowledged him as one of the greatest anatomical illustrators. Plate I shows the human embryo outside of the uterus from the earliest stages to full term development. Note the appearance of the limb buds in Figure 3. -- MU Ellis Library Exhibit note (2010)
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Italian & English phrases
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A ms. containing 90 p. of Italian phrases with English translations followed by 30 p. of Italian poetry, etc. Memorandum is [3] p. tête-bêche at end of the manuscript detailing a 3 squadrons of ships and their voyage Apr.-May 1626? in English., Binder's title., Signed at end: Giovanni Aurelio, notario publico de Londra., On front fly-leaf in ms.: Questo libro appartene a mi Carlo Longland, April XXI, 1626. Affixed with a seal in red wax possibly of a lion rampant, without a name., Longland, Charles, died in Florence in 1688 English merchant set up business as a factor at Leghorn (Livorno) Italy ca. 1651 assisted with England's Mediterranean policies under Cromwell and after the Restoration.
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Kellogg's jungle book
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This toy book was created by the Kellogg Company, the manufacturer of breakfast cereals. The book features animals in human clothing on the cover. The pages are cut into segments, allowing the reader to manipulate the appearance of the animals by matching different heads, bodies and feet., Blowing bubbles -- At singing school -- Musicians -- Having fun -- Good friends -- Queer fellows -- A good time -- Jungle queen -- On parade -- Automobiling -- At lunch -- At school -- Dancing -- The serenade -- Three young men -- Roller skating., The following pages are cut into 6 segments: "A good time" (Reverse: "On parade") and "Dancing" (Reverse: "Three young men"). When this book is fully opened, the pages containing "On parade", "At lunch", and "Dancing" form a three page panel. The appearances of the animals can be changed in many different ways by moving the segments.
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Kräuterbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten : 50 Originalblätter
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Title: Kräuterbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten : 50 Originalblätter aus deutschen, französischen, niederländischen, englischen, italienischen und Schweizer Kräuterbüchern. Mit historischer Einleitung und Bibliographie.
Publication: München : Wölfe, 1956.
Notes: Original plates from herbals published 1485 - 1858-63.
WorldCat number: 14674542
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Leigh Hunt: Autograph Letters and Other Materials (Collection)
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Jump to: Material in the Collection | About the Collection | Additional Resources | Leigh Hunt Biography
About the Collection
About the Digital Collection
The digital collection includes a selection of letters and writing fragments to, from, and regarding Leigh Hunt. The collection includes both transcripts and original documents and is organized into categories of correspondences and writing fragments. The collection was digitized using Zeutschel OS 15000. Images were captured in color at 600dpi and saved as .tiff images. Images were cropped and enhanced using Photoshop to improve clarity.
Transcriptions provided by unknown sources are available for many of the documents. Where these transcripts are not available, MU Libraries Digital Services is working to provide corrected OCR and manually generated transcriptions.
About the Physical Collection
The collection is housed in the University of Missouri Libraries Special Collection and Rare Books Department. The collection is organized into four series: correspondence, images of Leigh Hunt, fragments of writing, and miscellaneous documents. It includes letters written to and from Leigh Hunt, as well as letters authored by his son, Thornton Hunt. The collection also includes several letters written after Hunt's death that discuss his work. The writing fragments in the collection are largely authored by Leigh Hunt and include lists, indexes of texts, and pieces of personal writing and poetry. Additional details about the collection can be found in the catalog record.
Some documents were not digitized. These include three images of Leigh Hunt, a blank post card, an envelope of pressed flowers, and an ad clipping for two letters: one from Leigh Hunt's mother-in-law to her daughter, and one from Bell Hill to Leigh Hunt.
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Image source: Letter from Leigh Hunt to L. Lawrence.
Additional Resources
Digital Resources:
From MU Libraries:
The University of Iowa's Leigh Hunt: The Letters collection.
Visit the MU Libraries catalog for more resources:
Biography
James Henry Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859, was an English poet, essayist, and critic. A contemporary of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats, Hunt was an influential particpant in the literary community of 19th century Britain.
Hunt was born October 19, 1784 in Southgate, London, to Isaac and Mary Hunt, and spent his early education at Christ's Hospital in London. He was often ill and afflicted with panic and anxiety attacks, but friends and acquaintances often observed his cheerful and easy-going disposition. In 1809 Hunt married Marianne Kent, with whom he had ten children.
Hunt published his first volume of poetry, Juvenilia, in 1801. The collection was a popular success, and a fourth edition was published in 1804. Soon Hunt began contributing for evening papers and writing theatrical reviews, many of which were gathered in a volume called Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatre. In 1808 he became the editor of The Examiner, a weekly publication started by Hunt and his brother that sought to provide impartial political commentary. He would continue to write and edit The Examiner for the next 13 years, during which time he would experience prosecution and imprisonment for his comments on the character of the prince regent. Over the course of his career, Hunt also wrote and edited for The Reflector and The Indicator, and contributed to numerous other publications. He was an accomplished poet, and his most popular works include The Story of Rimini, The Descent of Liberty, and The Feast of the Poets.
Hunt was active in the literary community of Britain and cultivated friendships with numerous poets and essayists of the time. In 1816 Hunt published Keats' sonnet "O Solitude" in The Examiner, bringing him to the literary stage in Britain and facilitating his rise to prominence. He shared a mutual admiration with Byron and formed a lasting friendship with Shelley, who often supported Hunt during his bouts of poor health and financial distress. Hunt was also said to have been the inspiration for the character Harold Skimpole in Charles Dickens' Bleak House.
Hunt died August 28, 1859, after a lifetime of ill health. In the final years of his life Hunt struggled financially and domestically, attempting to care for his wife's failing health and relying on unstable income from his publications. His Autobiography was published in three volumes in 1850; he later revised the volumes shortly before his death. His son, Thornton, published the revised edition in 1860, along with two volumes of his Correspondences published in 1862. He was buried in Kensal Green cemetery, alongside his wife.
Image source: The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt, Vol. 1. Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.
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Lucubrator (Collection)
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The Lucubrator is a collection of essays written by James Noyes in the 1790s. This Lucubrator collection includes the main volume as well as a side-by-side view of the original pages and the transcribed pages. These are followed by student essays. It is of special note that an additional manuscript, that was folded in the back of the original, is included in this collection as well.
A transcript of the volume was created by students in Dr. Juliette Paul's Early American Literature course offered at the University of Missouri in the spring of 2016. Students who worked on the transcription project and submitted essays about their research are Mackenna Arends, Amy Cantrall, Meghan Cox, Jonathan Crecelius, Sarah Fine, Alecia McLean, Tyler Morris, Zack Schwartz, Erik Wasson, Michelle Zigler, and other students. The transcript provides full-text searching of the content, while the original volume does not.
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