{"id":7374,"date":"2016-10-16T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2016-10-16T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T20:36:51","slug":"robert-beale-and-collaborations-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=7374","title":{"rendered":"Robert Beale and collaborations in special collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The catalogue published in\u00a0EMLO this week, that of the diplomat Robert Beale<\/a>, takes us straight to the heart\u00a0of Elizabethan political and administrative circles. As Clerk to the Privy Council \u2014 a position which he held for almost three decades \u2014 Beale was witness to a succession of\u00a0extraordinary events in turbulent times: he played a significant role in the misfortunes and fate of Mary,\u00a0Queen of Scots, and he conducted\u00a0a series of\u00a0high-level\u00a0diplomatic missions to\u00a0the Low Countries and to\u00a0Germany.<\/p>\n

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Detail of a letter from David Chytraeus to Daniel Rogers. This letter did not reach its addressee, who was a fellow Clerk of the Privy Council, but came instead to Beale, who annotated it: \u2018Mr Rog was dead er these\u2018. (Special Collections Centre, University of Aberdeen, MS1009\/2\/13)<\/p><\/div>\n

This calendar of Beale\u2019s correspondence is made up of one-hundred-and-one items in the care of the University of Aberdeen. Spanning the entire second half of the sixteenth century, many of the letters relate to international and domestic affairs of state; others bear testament, however, to Beale\u2019s own personal connections and to his scholarly bent: he\u00a0corresponded with, for example, David Chytraeus, the Lutheran Professor of Greek at the University of Rostock, and with Andr\u00e9 Wechel, the reforming printer who was based first in Paris and then \u2014\u00a0following the Massacre of St Bartholemew in 1572 \u2014 in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

At EMLO we are truly delighted to be working with Dr Andrew Gordon<\/a>, the scholar heading the Robert Beale project, and with the Special Collections Centre<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Aberdeen<\/a>. \"AberdeenLogo\"The Library has generously made available digital images of the manuscripts, and users will find links to these from each letter record in EMLO. Dr Gordon has included metadata from the earlier researches of James D. George (1906\u20131977), a former secretary of Marischal College<\/a>, who prepared a handlist of items in the Beale papers and made partial transcriptions and notes on the majority of these. The Beale papers were recorded initially\u00a0at King\u2019s College in an inventory of 1771. Although it is not known how they entered the collections, it\u00a0seems likely\u00a0they formed part of a donation from Dr James Fraser<\/a> (1645\u20131731)\u00a0a book dealer and supplier to the libraries of the later Stuarts, who made significant benefactions to King\u2019s College<\/a> in the decades preceding his death. Work on the Robert Beale project is ongoing and to facilitate research the\u00a0calendar created during\u00a0this initial stage is being released\u00a0sooner rather than later. Significant additions, together with revisions, made in subsequent phases will be uploaded\u00a0as they become available.<\/p>\n

Increasingly EMLO is working\u00a0in partnership with libraries and special collections. Indeed, this week sees the inaugural session of an exciting pilot scheme being run with Oxford’s\u00a0Bodleian Libraries<\/a>\"BodleianLogo\"\u00a0to\u00a0bring together students, curators, digital experts, and original manuscripts. The aim is to produce student-curated catalogues\u00a0of hitherto\u00a0unpublished letters. Undergraduates and postgraduates are invited to attend standalone sessions in a series of workshops at\u00a0the Weston Library<\/a>. Over the course of a day, students will work in pairs to\u00a0collate the metadata, and produce transcriptions, which will be published in EMLO under the collective title\u00a0‘Bodleian Student Editions’. Students will be credited in full for their work and each session, which will take place in the Weston’s\u00a0Centre for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, will focus on\u00a0a selection of early modern letters from Special Collections <\/a>and will include guidance\u00a0on such issues as handling manuscripts; paleography; drafting a transcript; proofreading; collating metadata; and preparing a catalogue in EMLO. We hope very much these workshops\u00a0will prove\u00a0productive and helpful for students and staff alike. Students from any discipline may\u00a0apply by emailing Mike Webb, the Curator of Early Modern Manuscripts [mike.webb@bodleian.ox.ac.uk].<\/p>\n

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