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The essay provides news and publishes the text of a short handwritten letter (unknown until today) by Marcel Proust addressed to a «chère Madame». The letter, purchased by Bononi and hung under glass on one of the walls of his library, forms a sort of diptych with a pencil portrait of the great French writer very similar to the famous one painted in 1892 by Jacques-Émile Blanche.

This document is a review of two volumes of Béla Bartók's string quartets, edited by László Somfai with Zsombor Németh. The review praises the editors for their comprehensive and authoritative source on Bartók's quartets, which provide valuable insights into the composition and realization of the works. The volumes include scores with informative footnotes and a critical commentary section. The review highlights the importance of the string quartets in Bartók's oeuvre and the input of performers in the editorial process. Overall, the volumes are praised for their thoroughness and usability for performers and scholars. [Extracted from the article]

On five occasions in Pauline literature, the author claims to write in their own hand. In three of the five instances, the autograph is reserved for the final greeting and the greeting alone. In Galatians 6.11 and Philemon 19, however, Paul writes more than the letter's greeting in his own hand, as the comment about his autograph appears well before the closing salutations. This article engages one of these texts, Philemon, and argues that it was written entirely in Paul's hand. The letter was a Pauline holograph. To make this argument, the article first assesses the 'cheirographic rhetoric' of Philemon 19. Paul alludes to a type of documentary writing, the cheirograph, that recorded various sorts of financial proceedings. Paul's autographic guarantee recalls validation statements that were integral to this genre of text. Comparanda from the non-literary papyri show that when an author of a cheirograph called specific attention to their own handwriting, the entire document was customarily written in their own hand. The article then turns to the personal nature of Philemon and the abundance of second-person singular forms, arguing that there was a strong preference that personal letters like Philemon be handwritten in Paul's context. Taken together, these two arguments demonstrate that Paul's short letter to Philemon was more likely to be handwritten than dictated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For obvious reasons, Keats's biographers have focused primarily on the last five months of the poet's life and on the making of his reputation in the later nineteenth century. They have spent very little time, however, on the two uncertain years that followed the poet's death when his legacy, largely in the hands of Brown, Taylor and Severn, hung in the balance. As Severn was recovering from Keats's death, he fought to establish his own livelihood as a painter and find an adequate means of memorialising his friend. He was preoccupied with two works of art, The Death of Alcibiades and the headstone for Keats's grave. I argue that these artworks represent complex expressions of Severn's grief and in this sense are both memorials, though Alcibiades disguises its aims in a conventional historical painting. In the strong reading of Hyperion embedded in the picture, Severn finds a way of coming to terms with the traumatic aftermath of Keats's death as well as the critical attacks on his poetry. My recent rediscovery of two key manuscript letters of this time by members of the Keats Circle lends support to the argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document provides guidance for reviewers of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) on how to conduct effective and ethical reviews. The authors emphasize the importance of identifying major weaknesses in manuscripts and suggesting remedies, while separating them from minor suggestions for improvement. They also highlight the need for reviewers to consider non-Western perspectives and societal relevance in their evaluations. The document discusses the format and tone of reviews, the importance of providing confidential feedback to the editor, and the values of participation and impartiality in the review process. The authors also address managing emotions when reviewing and offer tips for writing high-quality reviews. [Extracted from the article]

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The renowned economic scientific journal "Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte" will be open access from January 1, 2024. The ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Franz Steiner Verlag have implemented the "Subscribe to Open" model to enable free access to economic-historical articles. The Bavarian State Library is digitizing its image archive and providing the images free of charge for reporting purposes. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar has restituted 41 autographs that were identified as Nazi-looted art to the heirs. [Extracted from the article]

· Proteomic analyses reveal practices in parchment use for medieval manuscripts. · Mont Saint Michel scriptorium select animal skin depending on the folio content. · Calf parchment is selectively used for the most valued part in the manuscript. · The four most prestigious liturgical manuscripts are made entirely of calfskin. The Mont Saint-Michel abbey in Normandy, France, was an important pilgrimage site in Christianity, and its scriptorium produced numerous manuscripts between the end of the 10th and the middle of the 13th century. The present study investigates the practice of the Mont Saint-Michel scriptorium in the use of parchment to produce manuscripts in the 11th century, based on a corpus of 67 manuscripts produced between 980 and 1100. The combination of information gained from the codicological studies, proteomic analyses and thickness measurement of the parchments, revealed that copyists and/or artists deliberately select the type of skin depending on the content of the folio or the status of the manuscript. Thus, only sheep parchment is used for folios with text or only lightly illuminated manuscripts, while calf parchment is selectively used for the most valued part in the manuscript, such as full-page illuminations and often large ornate letters opening the manuscripts. For the most prestigious manuscripts, which concern four volumes in the corpus, calfskin is used in the entire manuscript, with the occasional addition in the Mont Saint Michel Sacramentary of goatskin, confirming the special status of these manuscripts for liturgical use. The demonstration of these practices constitutes for historians invaluable information on the parchment production at the time, as well as insight into the manuscript or folio significance. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An office on the first floor of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket has six images painted directly on the walls that have remarkably survived many redecorations. This room was actor-manager Cyril Maude's dressing room between 1896 and 1905 when he was joint manager of the Theatre Royal alongside Frederick Harrison. To its fullest extent, Maude's exceptional dressing room was adorned with a gallery of forty images created in greasepaint by fellow actors and friends. Famous cartoonists Phil May, Harry Furniss, Bernard Partridge, Leonard Raven-Hill and Leslie Ward left their mark. The greasepaint gallery can be read as an extension of the fashion for collecting autographs; most of the images were signed and some dated. Equally, the gallery acts as a nostalgic scrapbook commemorating productions and recording famous visitors who were granted entrée behind the scenes. The gallery signalled Maude's standing in artistic, literary and social circles and thereby reinforced his own celebrity status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document "Sales and Catalogs Chronicle" analyzes recent sales of literary collections, highlighting a collection of 19th-century poetry and a collection combining poets and painters from Romanticism to Surrealism. Examples of lots sold include manuscripts by Baudelaire and Rimbaud, letters from Valéry to Breton, and submissions from renowned writers. The diversity and richness of the collections presented at this event are emphasized, with sometimes high prices for rare works. Discoveries of literary and photographic documents, including letters and manuscripts from Drieu la Rochelle, Rimbaud, and Mauriac, are also mentioned. [Extracted from the article]

There are many studies on technology-supported learning based on cooperative learning in the literature. However, little is known about Autograph-assisted think pair share learning in supporting students' problem-solving abilities for learning in today's technological era. This study aims to examine and analyze the differences in the improvement of students' problem-solving abilities who participate in think pair share learning assisted by Autograph (Auto-TPS) and conventional learning assisted by Autograph (Auto-CL). This study uses quantitative methods with the design used in this study is a nonequivalent control group design involving two groups of students. The sample of this study was 70 students of class IX SMP Al Ulum Medan, Indonesia. Questions to test students' mathematical problem-solving skills found five items. Data analysis includes data processing of test results, namely normality test, homogeneity test, hypothesis testing, and average difference test in the two groups using t-test. The conclusion of this study is that students who study with Auto-TPS get a higher increase in problem-solving abilities compared to students who learn with Auto-CL, with the explanation that the group of students who study Auto-TPS is very good when compared to the group student learning Auto-CL. Research findings related to the application of Auto-TPS can be an alternative learning model in the current technology-era learning situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the content and the internal textual features of the Greek collection of miracles of St Demetrios of Thessalonica by John Stavrakios in the 13th century, in comparison with the only two Slavonic copies, autographs of Vladislav the Grammarian from the 15th century, which attest the Slavonic translation. The collection is one of the most recent chronologically, reproducing both older miracles reflecting the flexible adaptation of the cult of St Demetrios and the uninterrupted veneration of the saint across wide spatial and temporal boundaries. The comparison of the Greek and the Slavonic traditions does not allow the exact Greek prototype to be identified. It probably belongs, however, to the filiation attested in the 1940 edition of Joachim Iberites, since individual textual samples prove that the Slavonic translation follows its Greek source quite closely. The role of Vladislav the Grammarian and the historical context of the emergence of the translation is discussed. The appendix contains two previously unpublished miracles, known only from the work of Stavrakios, in Slavonic translation based on the Rila Panegyric of 1479 and translated into modern Bulgarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Robin Myers, a prominent figure in the world of books and archives, passed away on her 97th birthday. She was a respected member of the Bibliographical Society and served as its first female president. Myers had a passion for collecting books and autograph letters, and she used her extensive knowledge to teach others about book collecting. She also played a significant role in preserving and promoting the archives of the Stationers' Company. Myers was known for her talent for friendship and her elegant writing style. She leaves behind a legacy of publications and fond memories among her many friends. [Extracted from the article]

This article brings attention to three manuscript letters by Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton in the Darmstaedter collection at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, two of which are published here for the first time. Of principal interest is a 1678 letter from Hooke to Newton, which concerns the controversy with Anthony Lucas over Newton's prism experiments and Hooke's disinclination 'to print transactions' on behalf of the Royal Society. A second Hooke letter, written to the French savant Nicolas Toinard in 1680, sends some astronomical observations together with English mathematician Robert Wood's book on a proposed calendrical reform. While the text of the third item, a 1706 letter by Newton welcoming its addressee into the Royal Society, has long been available in draft form, the Darmstaedter manuscript allows the recipient to be identified as a Savoyard diplomat, the Comte de Briançon, who can further be recognized as the intended addressee of another Newton letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Educationally-oriented measures of handwriting fluency – tasks such as written alphabet recall and sentence copying – conflate graphomotor skill and various higher-level abilities. Direct measurement of pen control when forming letters requires analysis of pen-tip velocity associated with the production of sub-letter features that, in a skilled handwriter, are typically produced in a single, smooth movement. We provide a segmentation and coding scheme that identifies these features in manuscript letters and gives criteria for whether or not a feature is accurately formed. We demonstrate that, in skilled handwriters, these features are the product of smooth movements: The velocity profiles of adult writers (N = 27 performing a letter-copying task) producing straight-line features and curved features gave modal velocity-peak counts of 1 and 2 respectively. We then illustrate the utility of our segmentation and coding scheme by describing the velocity profiles of beginning writers (176 first grade students with minimal handwriting training). This sample produced the same features with less accuracy and with a substantially greater number of velocity peaks. Inaccurate features tended to be produced more slowly and less fluently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Annual Editor Report for 2023 from the Brazilian Business Review (BBR) emphasizes the journal's commitment to publishing high-quality academic research in business. The report discusses the editorial process, which involves a team of experienced researchers and younger professors who select content relevant to the academic community. The report also reveals an increase in submissions and a higher rate of rejections, indicating a more rigorous evaluation process. The processing times have decreased, demonstrating a dedication to providing timely feedback to authors. BBR is indexed by Scopus and is working towards indexation in the Web of Science. The journal has a strong international presence and is one of the most downloaded journals in Brazil. The report highlights the importance of BBR remaining bilingual, as over 50% of the website's traffic comes from countries other than Brazil, with the United States and Indonesia being the top sources of traffic. The contributions of editorial assistants, associate editors, reviewers, and authors are acknowledged, as well as the support of FUCAPE Business School, CNPq, and FAPES. [Extracted from the article]

Online submission portals for scholarly journal manuscripts regularly include space for a covering letter or its equivalent. But why should that opportunity mark the first contact between author and editor? This article reimagines the submission-accompanying covering letter by exploring the value of earlier outreach and correspondence between authors and editors. For authors planning submissions to journals in the humanities and humanities-adjacent social sciences, especially, this article explains the purpose and practice of initiating contact via query letter after manuscript conceptualization but before manuscript composition. Following a positively received query letter, a covering letter becomes a straightforward letter of transmittal accompanying an anticipated submission that an editor should be predisposed to welcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study of the Praz library made it possible to find unpublished variants by Montale, the autograph draft of Arsenio's translation, Montalian parodies against Fascism, and even an unpublished letter by Pasolini. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In traditional publishing, a writer sends out query letters in order to seek representation. Though previous query letter research has examined this document's function when submitted to editors of magazines and journals, query letters submitted to agents for novels have only received attention from within the industry rather than as an object of academic inquiry. This study uses a corpus of query letters for fiction manuscripts to explore whether or not language proficiency and linguistic components bear weight on the success of querying authors. Ultimately, these findings stand as evidence of the empirical impact of language on acquisition odds and encourage further study on the matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses two previously unidentified references made by Emily Dickinson in her letters. The first reference is to a friend in Dresden who expressed a dislike for wildflowers and promised to send Dickinson a meadow. The author suggests that John Mason Tyler, a neighbor and friend of Dickinson's family who studied in Germany, may be the unidentified friend. The second reference is to a Mrs. J, whose identity is uncertain but may be Harriet D. Moseley Leland, the wife of a former treasurer of Amherst College. The article provides evidence from letters and historical records to support these identifications. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses a letter sent in 1549 during the Western Rebellion, a significant civil crisis in the mid-Tudor period. The letter contains the rebels' demands and has been printed and preserved in manuscript form. The authorship of the letter has long been a mystery, but the article suggests that Sir Peter Carew, a Devon-born gentleman who served in the privy chamber, is the likely author. The article also explores Carew's role in quashing the rebellion and his involvement in distributing government propaganda to discredit the rebels. [Extracted from the article]

Autographs of famous people constitute an interesting, albeit small, branch of the art market. Due to the limited number of works on the subject, the consideration of factors that can affect the price formation of these goods is important. The article analyses the results obtained from the Polish market for the last 7 years. In the study, measures used in finding pairwise correlations were used to identify potential relationships between characteristics. The results indicated relationships between the asking (and final) price and such factors as: the popularity of the person signing the document, the time of the document's creation and the impact of the Covid19 pandemic. The paper also proposed a special popularity ranking of famous people based on the Google Trends tool. In addition to the above-mentioned main factors, a set of other features of the document was analysed to a limited extent, taking into account, among others: the state of preservation, format or content of the document.

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This article explores the challenges we faced when translating and editing the autograph letters of Anna Maria Van Schurman that span four decades from 1631 to 1669. Van Schurman was regarded as the most learned woman in Europe throughout the seventeenth and well into the eighteenth century. Most of the letters, primarily in Latin, are addressed to André Rivet (1572–1651) and Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), towering figures in the Dutch Republic and the Republic of Letters. Our greatest challenge in translating and editing the letters was rhetorical: to discern and identify the gender dynamics at work when Van Schurman self-consciously entered the lettered world of male power and authority. Presenting the distinctive epistolary relations Van Schurman shared with Rivet and Huygens necessitated the identification of particularities in content, tone and material culture. Similarly, exploring these relations meant highlighting subtle and complex material markers in Van Schurman's letters, such as handwriting, visual presentation, and closing subscriptions and signatures, as well as postscripts, deferential spacing and quantity of paper used. We present Van Schurman's manuscript exchanges with Rivet and Huygens as a window into how a learned woman negotiated the challenges of epistolary networking in the Republic of Letters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Francesco Barberini, the cardinal nephew of Pope Urban VIII (1623–1644), is known to researchers primarily as a patron of the arts. However, he was a member of numerous dicasteries in the Roman Curia and held the office of head of the papal secretariat of state throughout the pontificate. In the early years he hardly appeared in this function. From 1631 onwards, testimonies of his involvement in the correspondence of the office become more frequent in the archives and provide information about his desire to play an active role in papal politics. Detailed autograph minutes to letters sent in cipher to the nuncios in Vienna deal with topics such as the mostly futile request of the imperials for subsidies, the rejection of criticism of the papal policy of neutrality and the improvement of relations between the Holy See and the imperial court. In addition, the attempt to influence the political convictions of members of religious orders working in Vienna and, in particular, the need to win the emperor's approval for the precedence of the prefect of Rome before the imperial envoy play a noticeable role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1789, the Academy of Ancient Music replaced Benjamin Cooke with Samuel Arnold as its musical director. This article offers a detailed analysis of an autograph copy of the address Cooke delivered to the Academy responding to their action, and of a letter to Cooke from Arnold countering accusations made regarding his conduct in the affair. Both documents are annotated by Henry Cooke, who used them in writing a biography of his father. These documents enable a new understanding of the significant changes made within the Academy in the 1780s and of the reasons Academy subscribers replaced Cooke with Arnold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An autograph manuscript written after late October 1747 by Mark Catesby, now in the collections of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, reveals that he was the author of a summary of the final (eleventh) part of his own book, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1729–1747). The summary was read to the Royal Society by Cromwell Mortimer in February 1748 and was then published under Mortimer's name in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Mortimer only lightly edited Catesby's manuscript and added an encomium. In his summary, Catesby took the opportunity, several months after the publication of the final part ("Appendix") of his two-volume book, to enlarge on a few details. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I investigate archivally Michael Heinrich's arguments for the existence of a crucial theoretical shift in Marx's thought during the 1870s centered around his supposed doubts about the validity of the law of the falling rate of profit. Heinrich's arguments have been grouped into six clusters and discussed deploying the material contained in collections of published and unpublished writing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, such as MECW and especially MEGA, whose second section includes all manuscripts related to Capital. This investigation concludes that the manuscripts and letters that Heinrich invokes to support his arguments do not substantiate any uncertainty on Marx's part about the validity of the law of the falling rate of profit nor a shift of his opinion during the 1870s towards the primacy of capitalist circulation, and especially credit, for explaining economic crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo se interroga por los usos sociales de la escritura en un museo provincial de bellas artes del litoral argentino a mediados de siglo XX, a partir de diferentes aportes de los estudios históricos sobre cultura escrita. El estudio interrelacionado de objetos bibliográficos, ephemera, escrituras expuestas, autógrafas y epigráficas permite identificar y constituir como objeto de análisis diferentes prácticas y artefactos escriturales. A partir del estudio de un caso particular, el artículo caracteriza diferentes tipologías de lo escrito para analizar su apropiación por parte de un grupo social. Esos usos son contextualizados a la luz de la emergencia de formas diferenciales de valoración de lo escrito en medios gráficos de comunicación y en la cultura institucional del museo a mediados de siglo XX. Las particularidades de un museo de arte permiten observar desde un enfoque singular la insistencia de imaginarios que vinculan a la inscripción escrituraria con la expresión de la individualidad y con la conservación de nombres ilustres en la memoria colectiva. Junto con ello, el estudio pone de relieve la noción de patrimonio escriturario, entendido como un dispositivo conceptual que permite dar cuenta de forma unitaria e integral de los objetos escritos conservados en un museo = This article examines the social uses of writing in a provincial museum of fine arts on the Argentinean area known as Litoral in the mid-twentieth century, based on different contributions from historical studies on written culture. The interrelated study of bibliographic objects, ephemera, exhibited writings, apparatus and auto-graphs allows us to identify and constitute different writing practices and artefacts as an object of analysis. From the study of a particular case, the article characterizes different typologies of writing and analyses their appropriation by a social group. These uses are contextualized in the light of the emergence of differential forms of valuing writing in the graphic media and in the institutional culture of the museum in the mid-twentieth century. The particularities of an art museum allow us to observe from a singular perspective the insistence of imaginaries that link written inscription with the expression of individuality and the preservation of illustrious names in the collective memory. The study also highlights the notion of written heritage, understood as a conceptual device that makes it possible to give a unitary and integral account of the written objects preserved in a museum.

The article discusses the practice of transferring rejected manuscripts to other journals within the same publisher's catalog. While this can save authors time and effort in reformatting, it raises concerns about the quality and ethics of the peer review process. The author suggests that manuscripts with major methodological flaws should not be transferred to other journals, regardless of prestige. Recommendations are made for conditions to observe when offering a transfer service. [Extracted from the article]

Only a decade ago Roger Kuin's The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney (2012) offered scholars for the first time a complete edition of Sidney's correspondence. Kuin modestly allowed room for new discoveries, in the hope that additional letters might be identified. This article introduces a previously unpublished autograph letter by Sidney, written in French, addressed on 21 April 1576 to Carolus Clusius or Charles de l'Écluse, an associate of Hubert Languet and a noted botanist then active in Vienna at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. After briefly discussing the provenance of the manuscript I turn to its contents, situating the letter within the wider corpus of Sidney's extant correspondence, with reference to letters to and from Clusius and Languet in Kuin's edition, and analysing it within this context. The newly discovered letter, transcribed and translated in an appendix, is shown to offer important new evidence for Sidney's relationships with Clusius and Languet as well as his place in European intellectual culture more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the unanimous attribution of the manuscripts, the Corrispondenza bucolica of Giovanni del Virgilio and Dante is still the subject of debates which concern the authenticity of Dante's Eglogues. The article investigates oldest manuscript of the Eglogues, the Zibaldone Laurenziano, an autograph of Giovanni Boccaccio in order to contribute to the resolution of the debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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P.Cair.Zen. IV 59538 (TM 1174), dated to 16 January of 257 BCE, is a fragmentary papyrus from the Zenon Archive that preserves the final part of a letter. Along with a significant part of its content, the identity of both its sender and addressee has been lost. However, a careful analysis of the material aspects of the letter reveals that its author and scribe can be identified with Amyntas (TM Per 769), the administrator of the Alexandrine household of Apollonios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The composer’s autograph was an important first-hand source of musicological studies. Compared to other musical scores that were transcribed by copyists or printed by either woodblocks or movable types, composer’s autograph showed significantly richer details of the progress of composition, as well as other details such as the modifications and revisions etc. Therefore, the study of composer’s autograph (when it exists) is by any mean helpful for understanding more about the historical and cultural context of a piece of music, as well as more detailed information about what and how the composer has worked for his final composition. Based on this guiding principle, in this study, I will mainly study the autographs of two representative Chinese composers at that period, NIE Er (聶耳) and XIAN Xinghai (冼星海), as both are significant figures of the patriotic composers during the Sino- Japanese war and conflict in 1931-1945 A.D., in order to understand the development of Chinese music composition further, the nationalistic movements, the antiJapanese propaganda as well as various political and cultural thoughts under such grand historical changes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to present an unedited original autograph letter by the orientalist Eugenio Griffini preserved in the Angela Codazzi Collection at the Central Municipal Library in Milan, known as Sormani Library. The letter, dated January 5, 1922, was written by Eugenio Griffini during his stay in Egypt as librarian and archivist at the court of King Aḥmad Fuʾād I and was addressed to Angela Codazzi. The study focuses on the translation of the text of the letter from Arabic into Italian and on the analysis of some of the most significant terms and expressions contained therein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]