15 May 2012
by Sarah Werner
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Last week’s crocodile mystery may have been a bit too mysterious, but I hope that today’s post will inspire you to look for similar mysteries on your own. Here’s a close-up detail of what I was asking about: As with … Continue reading
7 May 2012
by Sarah Werner
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First, my thanks to all of you who suggested new names for this series on identifying objects in our collection. The best suggestion came from Jeremy Dibbell, on twitter, who found this perfect moment in Antony and Cleopatra: LEPIDUS: What … Continue reading
29 March 2012
by Sarah Werner
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A lot of what we post at The Collation is weighty, chock full of information and detail and (I hope!) interesting facts about our collections, library work, and early modern studies. But sometimes all you want is to look at … Continue reading
15 March 2012
by Sarah Werner
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In keeping with the spirit of my last couple of posts, this one is also about printing, but this time as an activity that my students and I did in our Books and Early Modern Culture seminar. The Folger is … Continue reading
1 March 2012
by Sarah Werner
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In my last post, I wrote about my joy in finding printer’s errors and what we might learn from them about early modern printing. In this one, I want to look at some examples of what printers do to correct … Continue reading
23 February 2012
by Sarah Werner
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One of my favorite categories of early modern books are those that show errors, small mistakes made in the process of printing them. I don’t love them because I like to laugh at them. I love finding them because they … Continue reading
16 February 2012
by Sarah Werner
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Anyone who has been a Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library can attest to the central role that Carol Brobeck plays as the Fellowships Administrator in making their work possible. She has also worked with scholars and staff on four … Continue reading
30 January 2012
by Sarah Werner
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Last week I wrote about two students who worked on (two different copies of) the same book. But looking over the 64 texts that the 66 students I’ve taught over the last five years (in eight different seminars), I’m struck … Continue reading
23 January 2012
by Sarah Werner
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As I’ve written about before, in my Undergraduate Seminars students devote the bulk of their research time to crafting a biography of the book they’ve chosen as their primary focus. They find out who wrote the book and who printed … Continue reading
22 December 2011
by Sarah Werner
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Did you think that “reduce, reuse, recycle” was just a modern slogan? Check out this early modern book: