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Nadia Seiler
"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes
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"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes
“For a cancer in the brest” The large penstrokes of this title caught my eye as I was cataloging a recently acquired receipt book (a book of culinary and medicinal recipes). In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we…
Watermarks & hidden collections
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Watermarks & hidden collections
Hidden collections—that is, collections that are undescribed or underdescribed—are exceedingly common in libraries and archives. Until recently, the manuscript and printed paper that make up the E. Williams watermark collection, including papers of the Hale family of King’s Walden and…