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In Defense of the Card Catalog
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In Defense of the Card Catalog

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Abbie Weinberg

Whenever I am giving a tour of our Reading Rooms, or introducing a new Reader to our collection, I always make it a point to mention that we still have a card catalog room (two, in fact—one primarily for our…

How to plan a Shakespeare tercentenary
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How to plan a Shakespeare tercentenary

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Sarah Hovde

The Folger has a wide assortment of commemorative material relating to Shakespearean celebrations—from David Garrick’s 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, to tercentaries and quatercentenaries of Shakespeare’s birth (although no materials from the quatercentenary of his death quite yet)—but we hold very few…

Letter Scraps
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Letter Scraps

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Abbie Weinberg

Yes, indeed. As several readers astutely figured out, this scrap of paper most likely bears the tail-end of the phrase “Sotheby sale.” As for why it’s in our collection? Well, part of that answer comes with one more piece of…

Musae Faciles; or, an Oxford Study Guide
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Musae Faciles; or, an Oxford Study Guide

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Nicholas Tyacke

A guest post by Nicholas Tyacke Back in 2008, on the eve of directing a Faculty Weekend Seminar at the Folger, on “The University Cultures of Early-Modern Oxford and Cambridge,” I took the opportunity to consult the card catalog of…

A monument more lasting than bronze
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A monument more lasting than bronze

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Sarah Powell

exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens possit diruere… (Odes III: XXX, lines 1-4, published 23BC)  I have built a monument more lasting than bronze, higher than the Pyramids’ regal structures, that…

Fallen Type
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Fallen Type

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Those of you who replied to the Crocodile post last week guessed right: what you see in this image is a piece of fallen type that was printed by accident over a page of text being printed. The height of…

Textual variants in Shakespeare's love letter to Anne Hathaway
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Textual variants in Shakespeare's love letter to Anne Hathaway

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Heather Wolfe

When Shakespeare was young and in love, he wrote a gushing letter to his bride-to-be, enclosing with it a lock of his hair and five verses. Or that’s what an audacious teenager in the 1790s would have us all believe. The supposed love letter…

Formal designs
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Formal designs

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Sarah Hovde

Did you solve last week’s crocodile mystery? It’s a sonnet! A visual representation of the phonetic structures of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. XXIX, to be precise (rotated sideways to be extra-mysterious). The pattern was created by Marjory Bates Pratt in 1940,…

Chacolet
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Chacolet

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Alyssa Connell Marissa Nicosia

a Guest Post by Marissa Nicosia and Alyssa Connell Since we launched Cooking in the Archives in 2014 we’ve been looking for chocolate. We love chocolate, our friends and family who taste our recipes love chocolate, and we were pretty…

Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 3: the manuscripts
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Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 3: the manuscripts

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Elizabeth DeBold Heather Wolfe

In addition to the printed books and embroidered bindings described in last week’s post, the Folger also acquired 26 early modern manuscripts at the Robert S. Pirie sale at Sotheby’s (New York) in early December 2015. They should be arriving…

Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 2: the printed material
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Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 2: the printed material

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare Library acquired 45 lots, 19 of them printed books, at the auction sale of the Pirie collection that took place on December 2–4, 2015, at Sotheby’s, New York (we’ve also put up the complete list of our…

Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part I
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Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part I

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Elizabeth DeBold

The latter portion of 2015 included a bit more excitement than usual around the Folger, as we gathered for several days in early December to feast (on popcorn, primarily), drink (coffee and tea), and engage in that most merciless of…

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