Nellie was born, in 1908, to Moroni McArthur and Emma Jarvis Cottam McArthur, two longtime St. George residents and descendants of early Southern Utah pioneers. She was the second of ten children, but after losing her older brother, Nellie was the big sister. Nellie carefully maintained family records and scrapbooks for her parents and each of her siblings, which are contained in her collection.

Moroni McArthur and Emma Jarvis Cottam McArthur family, 1930

In 1929 she married Emil Gubler, the son of an original Santa Clara, Utah, pioneer.  After their marriage in the St. George LDS Temple, the couple moved to Santa Clara and Nellie claimed to “like it so well” that she never moved back to St. George, a mere 5-7 miles away. Emil eventually became part-owner of the Rocky Mountain Produce Company. Emil and Nellie raised twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, in their Santa Clara home. At the time of her death in 2007, Nellie and Emil were the progenitors of an extraordinary family of 73 grandchildren, 188 great-grandchildren, and 52 great-great-grandchildren.

Emil Gubler and Nellie McArthur Gubler family, 1962

Nellie McArthur Gubler was involved in her community.  She participated in the annual Swiss Days in Santa Clara, the Dixie Roundup, and the St. George Heritage Days for many years. She was also a member of the Santa Clara chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.  In addition, she served in several Latter-day Saint auxiliary organizations, including the Relief Society, Primary, and the Mutual Improvement Association.

Nellie devoted much time in her life to preserving Southern Utah community and religious history. She compiled several volumes that documented the foundation and history of Santa Clara, St. George, and many of the local, founding families. Nellie was particularly interested in the history of Southern Utah schools, buildings, and LDS church organizations, and in family history. She also studied the history of the Santa Clara Ward and its auxiliaries.

Nellie McArthur Gubler’s family papers contain scrapbooks that document each of these areas and reflect her passion for family, Southern Utah, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During her lifetime Nellie served and loved those around her, but she also preserved an historical record of her own life, her family, and her beloved Southern Utah.

A finding aid, prepared by Student Manuscript Processor, Audrey Spainhower and Curator, John M. Murphy,  is found here:  http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%207551.

The scope of music covers all genres and types. The songs for the theatre are mostly for Drury Lane and Covent Gardens, but also for Lincoln’s Inn Theatre and the King’s Theatre. There are songs published for societies, including the Anacreontic Society, the ‘Je ne scai quoi Club,’ and the Beefsteak Club. The songs include works by Purcell, Weldon, Carey, Leveridge, Handel, Courteville, Gluck, Eccles, Abbington, Boyce, and numerous others.

This collection is distinctive for several reasons. Many of the songs are notably rare with only one or two other known copies worldwide. The collection also gives information on numerous singers, including the types and ranges of their voices and the style of their singing. A wide cross-section of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English, Scottish, and Irish poetry and verse is represented in the texts.
(Text adapted from dealer’s description. Collection acquired through Lisa Cox.)

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
Partitur der W.A. Mozart’schen Ouverture zu seiner Oper Die Zauberflöte, in genauer Übereinstimmung mit dem Manuscript des Komponisten, so wie er solches entworfen instrumentirt und beendet hat, herausgegeben und mit einem Vorbericht begleitet von A. André. Original Ausgabe. [Full score]. Offenbach, J. André, [1829]. 3ff., 28 +2pp., lithographed oblong folio, p.n.5200.
Not listed in Michael Twyman’s Early Lithographed Music (London, 1996).
A significant lithographed publication printed in red and black. André in his preface explains that Mozart’s manuscript shows that he composed it in two stages – first the string parts (here printed in black) – and secondly the complete orchestration (here printed in red). He also indicates and prints in the score Mozart’s crossings out of complete bars and other smaller details.

CALEGARI, Francesco
Six Themes avec Variations Pour la Guitarre… Oeuv.12. Leipsic, Fr. Hofmeister, [ca. 1805]. 11pp., lithographed folio, p.n.425.
Not listed in Michael Twyman’s Early Lithographed Music (London, 1996)

DIABELLI, Anton
Sonate tres facile a quatre Mains pour le Pianoforte… Vienne, Magasin de l’imprimerie chimique I.R. priv., [ca. 1807 or 8]. 15pp., lithographed oblong folio, p.n.679.
Twyman’s p.224 No.9, recording a different issue to the present example. Our copy is without mention of the opus number, and the title page is laid out differently.

ROMBERG, Andreas
Trois Quatuors pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle… Oeuvre 16. [Parts.] Offenbach, Jean André, [1807]. 19, 15, 15, 15pp., lithographed folio, p.n.2327.
Not listed in Michael Twyman’s Early Lithographed Music (London, 1996).

Moby-Dick, the children’s board book

Channeling Ishmael at boarding school (this one is part of a series)

Captain Ahab time travels and teens save the day

Moby-Dick meets Dune; by an award-winning sci-fi author

Laure Katsaros, New York-Paris: Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City (Univ. of Michigan P, 2012). Call number: WHITMAN PS 3233 .K38 2012

Martin Kevorkian, Writing Beyond Prophecy: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville After the American Renaissance (Louisiana State UP, 2013). Call number: MELVILLE PS 1642 .R4 K48 2013

Sanford Marovitz, ed., Melville as Poet: The Art of “Pulsed Life” (Kent State UP, 2013). Call number: MELVILLE PS 2387 .M39 2013

Kathryn Mudgett, Writing the Seaman’s Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story (AMS Press, 2013). Call number: MELVILLE PS 217 .S33 M83 2013

Sarah Way Sherman, Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (Univ. New Hampshire P, 2013). Call number: ALCOTT PS 1017 .L53 S54 2013

Published in 1798 by J. & A. Arch at Gracechurch-street, London, Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote most of these poems as “experiments” in order to “ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.” In a way, this book revolutionized the art of writing poetry because the authors used common language to describe common subjects, which became a major feature of Romantic literature. This edition includes classic works such as “The Rime of an Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge and “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” by Wordsworth. Bound in beautiful marbled leather with gilt borders on the upper and lower covers and gilt lettering on the spine, this book is a valuable addition to our collection. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do.

• Jasper Cragwall, Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830. Ohio State University Press, 2013. Call number: Rowe Collection PR 468 .R44 C73 2013
• Benjamin Kim, Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800-1830: Romantic Crises. Bucknell University Press, 2013. Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5892 .P64 K56 2013.
• Maurice Lindsay’s The Burns Encyclopaedia (fourth edition). Robert Hale, 2013. Call number: Burns Collection PR 4330 .L5 2013
• Heidi Snow, William Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty. Ashgate, 2013. Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5892 .R4 S66 2013

Friday, Jan. 17 marks the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Victorian author Ellen Wood, who wrote as Mrs. Henry Wood. Her teen years were marred by a spinal curvature which kept her confined to her bed. At the age of 22, she married and moved to France, where her husband was employed by an English shipping firm. He was not successful as a businessman, however, and the Woods faced financial difficulties. Mrs. Wood began writing short stories for English magazines to help supplement the family’s income. The Woods eventually returned to England in 1856.

Mrs. Wood’s first novel, Danesbury House, was actually an entry into a writing contest – she won £100. From that auspicious beginning her next novel, East Lynne, became a runaway bestseller.  As it was being serialized in a magazine in 1860, Mrs. Wood offered the novel to several book publishers. It eventually was accepted and published in three-volume format in the fall of 1861. East Lynne is the story of a naïve young woman who is seduced into leaving her husband and children, and after much hardship, disguises herself as a governess in her husband’s new household to be near the children she abandoned. Despite criticism, readers found its mixture of sentimentality and sensationalism irresistible. The novel went through numerous reprintings, piracies, and several stage adaptations over the next 50 years.

Mrs. Wood wrote over a dozen other novels. After her husband’s death she took on the editorship of the literary periodical The Argosy, which featured her short stories and novels. Though her work was extremely popular in her own time, it has been mostly forgotten today; East Lynne is sometimes studied by scholars for its insights into mid-Victorian attitudes about women’s roles, morality, motherhood, and social class.

Special Collections owns first edition copies of eight of Mrs. Wood’s novels, including Danesbury House and East Lynne. One of the newest acquisitions to the Victorian Literature collections is a copy of her 1865 novel Mildred Arkell, signed by the author. Special Collections also owns a copy of a script from an American theatrical adaptation of East Lynne, printed at the turn of the 20th century.

Victorian and Edwardian Literature

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, first British edition (Vault 823 W88vo 1915)

Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia’s Lovers (Victorian 823 G212sy 1863)

Amelia B. Edwards, My Brother’s Wife (Victorian 821 Ed955my 1855)

American Rare Literature

Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Redwood: A Tale (Rare PS 2798 .R4 1850) and Hope Leslie (Rare PS 2798 .H63 1827)

Rowan Boyson, Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Laura Dabundo, The Marriage of Faith: Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth. Mercer University Press, 2012.

Mary Jacobus, Romantic Things: A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Adam Potkay, Wordsworth’s Ethics. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Eve LaPlante, Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother. Free Press, 2012.

Lisa Stepanski, The Home Schooling of Louisa May Alcott. Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.

Some new literary works based on Alcott and her characters:

Gabrielle Donnelly, The Little Women Letters. Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Little Women and Me. Bloomsbury, 2011.

One of Special Collections’ newest acquisitions for the literary collections is Peter Brears’ Cooking and Dining with the Wordsworths (Rowe Collection TX 717 .B7289 2011), which shares recipes and menus used in William Wordsworth’s household. If English poets aren’t your style, you could also peruse the Louisa May Alcott Cookbook (Alcott Collection TX 715.A5663 1985). Alcott and her novels have inspired a number of cookery books, including ones inspired by Little Women and a collection of recipes and home remedies compiled by Louisa’s mother, Abba.

Just search the library catalog for the subjects “cooking” or “cookbooks.” Special Collections owns a wealth of themed cookbooks, all relating to different collecting areas: Utah and Mormonism, the Victorian era, and even Yellowstone Park!

The library collects all printed works by and about Whitman and Melville, from their earliest works to modern editions, biographies, and literary criticism. Here are some of the newest additions to these collections:

John Michael Corrigan, American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry. Fordham Univ. Press, 2012.

William E. Engel, Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe. Ashgate, 2012.

International Melville Society Conference (2007). Secret Sharers: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of the Real.  M-Studio, 2011.

Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick? Viking, 2011.

1993 Fred Roberts Upper Deck trading Card. Roberts was a former Brigham Young University basketball player.

Fans of Brigham Young University display their devotion to the university in a variety of ways. Christopher J. J. Thiry chose to display his school spirit by collecting the professional trading cards of former Brigham Young University football and basketball athletes. He donated these trading cards to the University Archives in September 2014. The trading cards feature such former Cougar greats as Fred Roberts, Danny Ainge, Jason Buck, Ty Detmer, Lee Johnson, Jim McMahon, Bart Oates, and Steve Young. The trading cards are found in UA 5699 Christopher J.J. Thiry trading cards of Brigham Young University alumni.

If you would like to know more about the collections in the University Archives, please contact the University Archivist at (801) 422-5821 or gordon_daines@byu.edu

Janie Thompson at the piano sometime in the 1960s.

The University Archives recently acquired a great collection of materials from the exciting life and fruitful career of Janie Thompson. Janie grew up in the small town of Malta, Idaho before attending Brigham Young University in 1939. Janie graduated from Brigham Young University in 1943 with a degree in music. After graduating, Thompson toured Europe performing for troops during World War II. Janie also performed with various celebrities including Ike Carpenter and Tony Bennett.

Upon returning from a Latter-day Saint mission to Wales, Janie Thompson became the head of the Student Program Bureau, now Young Ambassadors, at Brigham Young University. Janie led numerous performing groups during her time at Brigham Young University. Thompson created many touring groups including Lamanite Generation, now Living Legends, and Young Ambassadors. Janie traveled the world with Brigham Young University’s various performing groups until her retirement in 1984. Janie Thompson passed away on June 1, 2013 but her legacy is still felt here at Brigham Young University.

UA 5663 contains Janie’s personal photographs, letters, scrapbooks, and other keepsakes documenting her life and career as a performer and the many Brigham Young University performing groups she was involved with. A finding aid to the collection is available here.

If you would like to know more about the Janie Thompson papers, please contact the University Archivist at (801) 422-5821 or gordon_daines@byu.edu.

blog post by Joseph Wiest

If you have any questions about this collection, contact the University Archivist at (801) 422-5821 or gordon_daines@byu.edu.

Daniel H. Ludlow was born on March 17, 1924 and died February 14, 2009. Ludlow was the former director of the Correlation Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a faculty member at Brigham Young University, and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

Dr. Ludlow attended Utah State University, Indiana University and Columbia University. He taught at Utah State University from 1947-52 and Brigham Young University from 1955-72, where he served as dean of religious instruction and director of the Institute of Mormon Studies. Dr. Ludlow worked for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in several capacities including as director of teacher support services for the Church Educational System and director of the Correlation department.

The collection is available through the L. Tom Perry Special Collections reading room (1130 HBLL) in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. If you have any questions about the Daniel H. Ludlow papers, please contact the University Archivist at (801) 422-5821 or gordon_daines@byu.edu.

Harvey Fletcher’s association with Brigham Young University began in the early years of the twentieth century as a high school student. Fletcher graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1904 and promptly enrolled as a student at Brigham Young University. In 1906 Fletcher helped lay out the block Y that has come to symbolize Brigham Young University across the world. Fletcher graduated in 1907 and pursued graduate work at the University of Chicago under the tutelage of Robert Millikan. He became the first student to graduate summa cum laude in physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly before his graduation, Fletcher was approached by President George H. Brimhall about returning to teach at Brigham Young University. Fletcher readily agreed to return to his alma mater as the chairman of the Department of Physics. He taught at Brigham Young University until 1916 when he was offered a research position at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York.

Fletcher took the position with Bell Telephone Laboratories and worked there for the next thirty-three years. It was while with the Bell Laboratories that he gained his reputation as the father of stereophonic sound and did pioneering work on hearing aids. Following his retirement from the Bell Laboratories, Fletcher was appointed professor of physics at Columbia University in New York City (a position that he held for two years).

Harvey Fletcher is second from the left, ca. 1950

In 1952, at the urging of President Ernest L. Wilkinson, Fletcher returned to Brigham Young University as the director of research (1952-1955) of the Engineering Sciences Department. He became the founding dean of the College of Physical and Engineering Sciences in 1954 and served the university well for the next three years.

Individuals interested in studying the life of Harvey Fletcher should also consult the following sources held in the University Archives:

• MSS 1233 Harvey Fletcher papers. This collection includes correspondence, reports, publications, and other materials documenting Fletcher’s life. Access the finding aid for this collection by clicking here.
• UA 909 Faculty Biographical File. This collection contains information on Fletcher’s career at Brigham Young University.
• UA OH 6 Oral history interview with Harvey Fletcher, Sept. 19, 1968. Interview by Hollis Scott with Harvey Fletcher, scientist and teacher, concerning his experiences in Provo, Utah, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, as a teacher at BYU, and as a bishop and stake president in the New York Stake.
• UA 129 Addresses in honor of Harvey Fletcher. This collection includes typewritten, edited and final drafts of speeches about Fletcher written and given by William L. Woolf and George H. Hansen, a memorandum concerning a speech from Ernest L. Wilkinson to George H. Hansen, a record of Fletcher’s professional experience, and biographical information submitted to Who’s Who in America.
• D 1.023 .P477 2006 Good and Great: A Biography of Harvey Fletcher by Michael Fletcher Perry.
• BX 8670.1 .F634a 1967 Autobiography of Harvey Fletcher by Harvey Fletcher.
• PN 1619.021. F62 1996 The Caroling of Atoms: The Life’s Work of Dr. Harvey Fletcher by Maureen Meyer Fletcher.
• BX 8647 .B76m 1960 Science and religion by Harvey Fletcher.

If you have questions about these collections, please contact the University Archivist at (801) 422-5821 or gordon_daines@byu.edu

Wilmer W. Tanner examines one of the Bean Museum specimens

The University Archives recently acquired the personal papers of Wilmer W. Tanner. Tanner was an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University from 1932 until 1936. After obtaining a graduate degree in zoology, he returned to the university as a faculty member in 1950. He successfully implemented a research program during a time in which the university was focused almost exclusively on undergraduate education. From 1960 to 1967, he edited Herpetologica and succeeded in saving its host organization, the Herpetologists’ League, from financial collapse. Tanner was heavily involved in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, appointed in 1961 (and reappointed in 1966) as secretary-treasurer of the Utah Academy and elected president of the same in 1969 (serving through 1971).

Wilmer Tanner was appointed as the curator of the BYU Life Science Museum in 1972 and quickly began working towards a building for the university’s collections. He worked closely with Monte L. Bean and convinced him to fund the construction of a Life Science Museum building. Bean also decided to donate his extensive trophy collection to the university to augment its life science collection. Tanner oversaw the construction of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum and was quite pleased with the results. Tanner also worked diligently to create an endowment for the museum. The Bean Museum opened its doors in 1978.

This collection contains extensive correspondence; records documenting the Herpetology League; records of the Herpetologica journal; records highlighting Tanner’s involvement in the American Association for the Advancement of Science; materials documenting various Brigham Young University organizations; records associated with an Atomic Energy Commission project; extensive records and correspondence associated with the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum and its endowment; research notes, charts, and computer printouts; zoology department documents; and various materials of personal interest to Wilmer W. Tanner. The materials date from 1940 to 2009.

The collection is cataloged under the call number MSS 7361 and is titled the Wilmer W. Tanner papers. It is available through the L. Tom Perry Special Collections reference desk (1130 HBLL) in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. If you would like to know more about this collection, please contact the University Archivist at (801) 422-5821 or gordon_daines@byu.edu.

Special Collections owns a small number of early printed dictionaries and has recently acquired another, Johann Reuchlin’s Latin dictionary, Vocabularius breuiloquus (Basel: Nikolaus Kessler, 1486). A close-up from the first page of the preface is shown here. Other early printed dictionaries at Special Collections include an edition of an abridged Latin-German dictionary, Vocabularius ex quo (Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, ca. 1488-1493) and the Latin-Greek dictionary  (Johannes Crastonus’ Lexicon Graeco-Latinum)  printed by Aldus Manutius in 1497.

條約十一國記 /Jōyaku jūikkokuki [Rare Book Collection AC 901 .A1 no. 4824]

This small book dates from 1867. It gives short descriptions of the United States and a number of European countries, including statistical information and illustrations of the countries’ flags.

武器皕圖 /Buki nihyakuzu [Vault Collection Quarto U 821 .J3 K626 1848]

This book supplements the current exhibit very well with its illustrations of armor, weapons, battle formations, and defenses. It was printed in 1848.

和歌題林抄/Waka dairin shō [Vault Collection PL 728.8115 .W34 1700]

This book of classical Japanese poetry was produced around 1700. The covers feature beautiful landscapes painted in gold ink.

Hildegard was a German abbess, one of the most famous and prolific women authors of the medieval period. Besides authoring religious, mystical, scientific, and philosophic texts, she was also a composer and a playwright. Hildegard founded the convent at Rupertsberg in 1150. Scivias is one of her most important works, detailing 26 visions on religious topics like the creation, the Trinity, and the way to salvation. It also includes religious lyrics.

The Rupertsberg manuscript was completed at Hildegard’s abbey in 1151 or 1152, though scholars disagree as to how involved she was in the making of the manuscript. An illumination in the introduction of the text shows Hildegard writing on a wax tablet while receiving a vision and dictating to her mentor, Volmar, a Benedictine monk.

The Rupertsberg manuscript was faithfully copied by nuns in the abbey in the late 1920s, including the illustrations. Their work would prove prescient, as the original manuscript was moved to Dresden during World War II and subsequently lost. The facsimile is Special Collections is a photographic reproduction of the 1920s copy.

The Scivias facsimile is now available to researchers in accordance with Special Collections policies and procedures.

Robinson Jeffers, Hungerfield. Grabhorn Press, 1952. One of only 30 copies, and inscribed by Jeffers. (Call number: Grabhorn Press Collection Quarto, 1952 no.13)

Raymond O. Faulkner, trans. The Book of the Dead. Limited Editions Club, 1972. (Call number: Limited Editions Club Quarto, 1972 no. 11). Two volumes, including text and plates.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. The Arion Press, 2014. (Call number: Hoyem Press Collection Quarto, 2014 no. 1)

Our first featured item is Peter Parley’s visit to London, during the coronation of Queen Victoria is an 1839 children’s book recounting the coronation as well as the prominent sights and celebrities of London at the beginning of Victoria’s reign.

Next, An account of the processions and ceremonies observed in the magnificent coronation of Victoria I, Queen of England: this chapbook would have been a relatively inexpensive piece reporting on the coronation. The fold-out illustration of Victoria’s coronation procession is a simple woodcut, hand-painted with watercolors. It stands in sharp contrast to Soffe’s panoramic representation of the grand procession on the day of the Queen’s coronation, which is an 18-foot lithographed and hand-colored depiction of Victoria’s procession through London on the way to her coronation. This panorama would have been a much more expensive souvenir of the event.

 You can find these and other items from Victoria’s reign by searching the library catalog for the subject “Victoria, Queen of Great Britain.”

M. T. Cicero’s Cato Major is often cited as the finest example of American printing in the colonial period. It features imported Italian paper stock and a large, clear typeface. It joins several other examples of Franklin’s presswork at Special Collections.

Special Collections has a number of other souvenir items marketed to Victorian vacationers, such as this hand-colored panoramic view (from the 1840s) of the resort of Brighton, as well as travel guides to destinations like the Isle of Wight. They provide fascinating insights into recreation, travel, and tourism in Victorian Britain.

Hevelius (pictured here taking observations with his wife and assistant, Elisabeth) observed this comet from April 27 to May 8, 1677, and had his observations printed at his own private printing press. Hevelius usually did not sell his writings; instead, he distributed them to colleagues at his own discretion.

Special Collections owns a near-complete collection of Hevelius’ printed works, as well as some of his original astronomical manuscripts and correspondence. We are very pleased to add this work to our Hevelius collection!

Vita Adelelmi (Vida de San Lesmes). Call number: Vault Collection Quarto BX 4700 .A24 V58 2004

A facsimile of a manuscript from Burgos, Spain. This manuscript contains the life and miracles of St. Adelelmus (San Lesmes, d. circa 1100), the patron saint of the city of Burgos, as well as the chants and liturgy to celebrate the mass in his honor.

Vita der Mathilde di Canossa. Call number: Rare Book Collection DG 737.24 .M4 D66 1984

A reproduction of a manuscript held by the Vatican Library, which relates the story of the life of Matilda of Tuscany (1046-1115), an Italian noblewoman and military leader.

Chirurgia. Call number: Rare Book Collection RD 30 .A2816 2012

A reproduction of a 12th century manuscript held by the Austrian national library. The text is a Latin translation of an Arabic treatise on surgery.

The first is an edition of Pope Leo X’s bull Exsurge Domine, printed by German Protestant reformer Ulrich von Hutten. The papal bull censured statements from Martin Luther’s writings and threatened him with excommunication if he did not recant. Hutten reprinted the text of the bull and added his own annotations and an introduction supporting Luther, in which Hutten told the Pope to keep his bulls to himself.

The second pamphlet is an edition of Hans Sachs’ famous poem Die Wittenbergisch Nachtigall (The Wittenberg Nightingale). Sachs was a follower of Martin Luther, and he wrote this long poem in 1523 in Luther’s honor. The nightingale, who represents Luther, sings in the dawn of reform. The poem also explains Luther’s teachings and recounts the early history of the Reformation.

Both of these pamphlets, along with hundreds of other primary sources from the Protestant Reformation, can be discovered using the library catalog. You can search for Reformation authors like Hutten, Sachs, or Luther by name. Some useful subject terms for Luther-era Reformation pamphlets include:

• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
• Lutheran Church–Controversial Literature
• Lutheran Church–Doctrines