21 December 2012
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Sarah Werner
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Last weekend, the Folger Institute and the Folger Undergraduate Program held a 3-day workshop on Teaching Book History. 50 librarians and faculty gathered from a wide range of institutions—small liberal arts colleges to regional schools to highly selective research universities—bringing … Continue reading
18 December 2012
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Jim Kuhn
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Dear Readers: Our Digital Image Collection has had a bit of a make-over. The purpose of today’s post is to introduce you to new fields and field names and to explain a bit of background that lead to these changes. Background: … Continue reading
14 December 2012
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Erin Blake
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One of the most fascinating books I read while working on my dissertation had nothing to do with the topic as such: It’s the 189-page “user’s guide” to the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings, published in 1987. In it, … Continue reading
11 December 2012
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Sarah Werner
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As three of you immediately identified in your comments, last week’s crocodile mystery was the fastening in the center of a volvelle, holding the various layers in place and allowing them to turn: Volvelles are paper wheels that are fastened … Continue reading
7 December 2012
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Heather Wolfe
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Many Collation readers are already familiar with the Folger’s Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 (Folger MS V.b.232), and the fabulous Trevilian Great Book of 1616 at the Wormsley Library. Both manuscripts, created by Thomas Trevelyon/Trevilian1 (b. ca. 1548), have been published in … Continue reading
4 December 2012
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Sarah Werner
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If it’s a new month, it must be time for a new crocodile mystery, and so: As always, we invite your your thoughts below on what this might be and what we might learn from it!