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Arithmetic is the Art of Computation
poem about arithmetic
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Arithmetic is the Art of Computation

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

Yes, the answer to last week’s Crocodile mystery is as obvious as it seemed. We were looking for a number which unites the table, the fractions, and the superfluous but artful penmanship. Answer: 60, of course! What we are actually…

'I Grapple him to my Soul with hooks of Steel'
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'I Grapple him to my Soul with hooks of Steel'

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Abbie Weinberg

I’m sure all of our readers know that moment when you’re looking for one thing but find something else entirely (some call it serendipity—I just call it research). Such as doing a Name Browse in Hamnet for “Adams” (I believe…

A Pin's Worth: Pins in Books
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A Pin's Worth: Pins in Books

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The object you see tucked in the gathering of the book in this month’s Crocodile Mystery is a pin. Recently, I have become aware of the presence of pins in a number of books at the Folger Shakespeare Library. At…

Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale
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Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale

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Louis Butelli

Louis Butelli Hello, dear readers of the Folger Production Diary! This is your friend Louis Butelli writing you once again. How’ve you been? The reason for this entry is to proudly announce a brand new collaboration between myself, director Robert…

Photostats, or, The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Photostats, or, The more things change, the more they stay the same

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Erin Blake

Five weeks, and seventeen back-and-forth notes and letters. That’s what it took for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s first director, William Slade, to overcome the architects’ doubts that the library really did need a costly No. 4 Photostat machine and that it really was worth…

Marginal calculations; or, how old is that book?
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Marginal calculations; or, how old is that book?

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Heather Wolfe

I’d like to make a pitch for recording a specific type of manuscript annotation in printed books and manuscripts: the “book age calculation.” These calculations turn up frequently on pastedowns and endleaves, and sometimes right in the middle of texts.…

Publishing Against the King: French Civil War Pamphlets
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Publishing Against the King: French Civil War Pamphlets

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

From 1648 to 1653 a civil war, known as the Fronde, raged in France, with the nobility and most of the people of France on one side, and the royal government under the child-king Louis XIV and his hated chief…

Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?
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Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?

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Paul Dingman

When it comes to the subject of tagging or encoding manuscript transcriptions in XML (extensible markup language) for Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), two important questions are how much should we tag and when should we do it. With thousands…

The mystery of gridded paper
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The mystery of gridded paper

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Austin Plann Curley

A guest post by Austin Plann Curley For a blank sheet of paper, we thought this one was pretty interesting. But before we get to what exactly it is, let’s refresh our understanding of how paper is made. Prior to…

A Renaissance best-seller of love and action
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A Renaissance best-seller of love and action

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare Library’s 26 copies of various editions of Lodovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso attest to its success during the 16th and early 17th centuries (a success that continued for much longer, but that is another story). See for example Exercices furieux: à…

"A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions
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"A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions

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Sarah Hovde

If you’re a regular user of the internet, you probably saw a multitude of images posted for the Bard’s birthday a few weeks ago. I can almost guarantee, though, that few were as opulent as the contribution from the University…

Guten Tag! Como vai? Parlez-vous français?
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Guten Tag! Como vai? Parlez-vous français?

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Abbie Weinberg

Spring is Conference Season for many academics, allowing us to travel far and wide for our academic and professional enrichment. Sometimes, we find ourselves traveling in places where the local language is not one of the ones we are most…

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