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Monthly Archives: June 2012

25 June 2012
by Erin Blake
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Learning to “read” old paper

Have you ever wished there were a summer camp for bookish grown-ups? A retreat where we can spend a week amongst our own and not worry about being teased for loving libraries or getting hit in the glasses by a … Continue reading →

Categories: art | Tags: paper, watermarks | Permalink

18 June 2012
by Carrie Smith
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Bell’s nightmare continued

This post is a continuation of “John Bell, bibliographic nightmare.” I began to write these posts while entrenched in the difficult task of cataloging the library’s myriad copies of Bell’s 18th-century Shakespeare publications as a means of sharing a look into … Continue reading →

Categories: books, cataloging | Tags: John Bell, Shakespeare | Permalink

14 June 2012
by Heather Wolfe and Kathleen Lynch
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Pew-hopping in St. Margaret’s Church

Manuscripts of unusual shapes and sizes are always fun to investigate, and we recently had the opportunity to reevaluate a particularly large and interesting one, a ca. 1600 “pew plan” written on a piece of parchment (Folger MS X.d.395), in … Continue reading →

Categories: exhibitions, manuscripts | Tags: multi-spectral imaging, pew plan | Permalink

11 June 2012
by Sarah Werner
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Binding clasps

Some close observation and deductive reasoning led commenters in the right direction in solving the June crocodile mystery. Here’s image that I posted last week, with a bit more context: With that bit of the surrounding context, it’s much clearer … Continue reading →

Categories: books, crocodile mystery, digital resources, research aids | Tags: bindings, digital image collection | Permalink

7 June 2012
by Sarah Werner
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: June edition

This month’s crocodile mystery will hopefully be less mysterious than last month’s, which was a bit unclear as to what you were meant to be focusing on. Take a gander at the picture below, keeping in mind, as always, that the … Continue reading →

Categories: crocodile mystery | Permalink

5 June 2012
by Carrie Smith and Sarah Werner
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John Bell, bibliographic nightmare

Some books are more challenging than others; some bibliographic questions are more complicated than others. This is the first of two posts that looks at a particularly challenging cataloging question. Today’s post will set up the challenge; the next one … Continue reading →

Categories: books, cataloging | Tags: John Bell, Shakespeare | Permalink

Recent Posts

  • Shakespeare’s personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland
  • An alter’d case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl
  • Annotating and collaborating
  • “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: June 2013
  • Folger Tooltips: Hamnet access to e-books, part one

Recent Comments

  • Helen Wolfenden on Battling over 18th-century rights to Shakespeare
  • Heather Wolfe on Shakespeare’s personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland
  • A Document Speaks | Ben Jonson's Walk on Thomas Shelton’s shorthand version of the Lord’s Prayer
  • James on Shakespeare’s personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland
  • John Lancaster on An alter’d case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl

blog authors

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  • Rhea DeStefano
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  • Nadia Seiler
  • Adrienne Shevchuk
  • Carrie Smith
  • Sarah Werner
  • Heather Wolfe
  • Georgianna Ziegler

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