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The EMMO Conference on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
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The EMMO Conference on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

On May 18th & 19th, 2017, EMMO held the Early Modern Manuscripts Online: New Directions in Teaching and Research conference at the Folger, in collaboration with the Folger Institute. This conference was a culmination of the project’s initial three-year phase, funded by a…

Imagining a lost set of commonplace books
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Imagining a lost set of commonplace books

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Heather Wolfe

As observed by one of our respondents, last week’s Crocodile was a detail from a blank leaf bisected by a vertical line in graphite, with a column of handwritten letters consisting of the Roman alphabet followed by the Greek alphabet. Folger…

Happy Birthday, Elias Ashmole!
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Happy Birthday, Elias Ashmole!

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Abbie Weinberg

Today is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Elias Ashmole. Perhaps best known today for giving his name (and the founding collection of antiquities and “curiosities”) to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, this 17th-century antiquarian had…

The Reformation at Folger
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The Reformation at Folger

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

As this year marks the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 theses and along with it, the beginning of the Reformation, a blog post on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Reformation collection is in order.See also the blog post “Folger as a…

New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama
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New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama

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Elizabeth Williamson Meaghan J. Brown

The Folger’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (EMED) is delighted to announce the release of twenty early modern plays, freely available to read and download. EMED offers you the chance to explore the vibrant scene of professional theater…

Okay, but what does it mean, or how do you regularize an early modern transcription?
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Okay, but what does it mean, or how do you regularize an early modern transcription?

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Paul Dingman

As one reader guessed, the phrase shown in last week’s Crocodile mystery image is in secretary hand, i.e., a type of handwritten script widely used in the British Isles (and elsewhere in Europe) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As transcribed…

"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": May 2017
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"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": May 2017

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The Collation

For the Crocodile Mystery this month, peer into the handwriting of this manuscript and let us know what word or words you see and/or what they mean. Leave your thoughts and guesses as a reply in the Comments section. Check…

'Timon of Athens' First Rehearsal
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'Timon of Athens' First Rehearsal

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Folger Theatre

The last production of Folger Theatre’s 25th anniversary season began on Monday with the first rehearsal and read-through of Timon of Athens. What can we expect from this rarely performed play? Let’s take a peek inside the room and see what we…

New Vault Material Walks Into a Library...
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New Vault Material Walks Into a Library...

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Erin Blake

New staff members (and researchers!) are sometimes surprised to find that on-order and newly received collection materials show up in Hamnet searches. Many special collections libraries keep that information staff-only until the material has arrived, been processed, and sent to the…

Pietro Mattioli and the Everlasting Woodblocks
left: detail of woodcut, right: same detail of print
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Pietro Mattioli and the Everlasting Woodblocks

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Abbie Weinberg

Yes, last week’s Crocodile Mystery was a close-up image of a woodblock. This woodblock, in particular: Folger 245- 324f woodblock 1 And in fact, it is the woodblock that was used to print this image: “Lactuca florescens,” a variety of…

Sign Here Please: ______ Blank forms from the Folger Collection
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Sign Here Please: ______ Blank forms from the Folger Collection

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Derek Dunne

A guest post by Derek Dunne For anyone who has worked in the Reading Room of the Folger Shakespeare Library, you’ll know that a certain amount of paperwork is part of the daily routine: sign-in sheets, call slips, and of…

Histories and Communities of Books
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Histories and Communities of Books

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Megan Heffernan

A guest post by Megan Heffernan Working in the Folger Shakespeare Library this year has opened my eyes to the important role that research centers play in shaping knowledge. If this sounds like a truism, bear with me for a…

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