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Strange New World: Folger Resources for Online Learning and Teaching
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Strange New World: Folger Resources for Online Learning and Teaching

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The Collation

I think Miranda will forgive the paraphrase when we say it’s a strange new world out there right now. For many of us, our lives have been turned upside down in the last week (has it really only been a week?),…

Printed Elizabethan poetry now included in Union First Line Index
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Printed Elizabethan poetry now included in Union First Line Index

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Erin Blake

As of September 2019, researchers have 35,261 more reasons to use the Union First Line Index of English Verse, hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The database now contains all first lines, not just manuscript first lines, from Elizabethan poetry:…

British Book Illustrations
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British Book Illustrations

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Emily Wahl

Good news, picture-seekers! If you’ve ever tried to search Luna for a picture of something specific, you’ve probably noticed that relatively few digital images match one-to-one with their source descriptions. For example, although a keyword search for “dog” will bring…

Mapping Shakespeare's plays: an experiment
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Mapping Shakespeare's plays: an experiment

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Charles Webb

A guest post by Charles Webb Friends, Romans, Countrymen: lend me your eyes For the past eight months I have split my time between working at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Dumbarton Oaks as a Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow.…

And that's IIIF to you, too
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And that's IIIF to you, too

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Meaghan J. Brown

Our Crocodile mystery last week showed some crocodile tears, but the exciting part is just below our sad reptile. This illustrated Italian ducal motto is from Symbola divina & Humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum, by Jacob Typot (Frankfurt, 1652)—and you can get…

Coding Elizabeth’s Court: A Digital Experiment
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Coding Elizabeth’s Court: A Digital Experiment

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Danielle Rosvally Meaghan J. Brown

With Danielle Rosvally The Dataset Gathered by Marion E. Colthorpe, The Elizabethan Court Day by Day (ECDbD) is a record of the people, places, and events of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Colthorpe consulted state papers, diaries, government records,…

Experiments with early modern manuscripts and computer-aided transcription
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Experiments with early modern manuscripts and computer-aided transcription

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Meaghan J. Brown Minyue Dai, Carrie Yang, and Reeve Ingle

Guest post by Minyue Dai, Carrie Yang, Reeve Ingle, and Meaghan J. Brown. Hundreds of years ago, scholars might spend hours in a library searching through thousands of pages to find a useful paragraph.Things get much easier when we can…

Early Modern Digital Texts: a link roundup
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Early Modern Digital Texts: a link roundup

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Meaghan J. Brown

The early modern textual landscape is broad and varied online, from full-text collections focused on a single genre or area of research, to in-depth examinations of the history of a famous text. In this post, we’ll explore a few of…

What is Lost is Found Again: the Lost Plays Database
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What is Lost is Found Again: the Lost Plays Database

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Meaghan J. Brown

We had one answer right on the money for this July’s Crocodile Mystery—each of the images featured evidence of lost plays. The first image is a scrap from the Henslowe papers, recording a payment for John Day for the third…

The IIIF Community Comes to Washington
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The IIIF Community Comes to Washington

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The Collation

This week, we at the Folger welcome members of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) community to Washington for an annual conference together with our fellow hosts, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. The IIIF community is a profoundly…

Discovering Early Modern Digital Resources
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Discovering Early Modern Digital Resources

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Meaghan J. Brown

This post was written with the invaluable contribution of Sophie Byvik. Ever been puzzled by a date in one of our manuscripts? Want to know how much a manipulus is in your early modern recipe? How much did that early…

Folger Collections related to Dramatic Performance
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Folger Collections related to Dramatic Performance

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Owen Williams Rachel B. Dankert

In hopes that we can help theater historians discover more about relevant Folger holdings through their own explorations, we have created this post on “named” collections at the Folger that relate to actors, dramatic performance, and the texts used by…

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