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Documents, in microcosm
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Documents, in microcosm

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Abbie Weinberg

I have been part of the team that has been working to create Shakespeare Documented, which launched on January 20, 2016. In the last few weeks before launch, one of my main duties became the creation the thumbnail image for…

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…

"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": February 2016
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"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": February 2016

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The Collation

Welcome to the February crocodile mystery! We’ll jump right in: what is the image below? What does it represent? What does this have to do with Shakespeare?? Please share your thoughts, guesses, etc. using the “Leave a reply” box at…

The Amherst-Folger Fellows
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The Amherst-Folger Fellows

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Owen Williams

As readers of The Collation know, the Folger welcomes scholars on fellowship, Folger Institute program participants, and individual readers to our reading rooms. But what our readers may not know is that each January, we open our doors to a…

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…

Photo-manual illustration
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Photo-manual illustration

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Erin Blake

As Jeff and Anthony commented on last week’s Crocodile Mystery, this picture is unusual because it is an engraved portrait copied from a photograph rather than from a drawing or painting. “Madame Celeste as the Princess Katherine.” Engraved by George Hollis from a daguerreotype by J.E.…

"What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?": January 2016
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"What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?": January 2016

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The Collation

This month’s mystery raises the question of illustration technique, taking a portrait of Céline Celeste as Katherine in Shakespeare’s Henry V as an example. What makes this picture unusual, technically speaking? Please share your thoughts, guesses, New Year’s greetings, etc.,  using the “Leave a…

Shakespeare Documented, coming soon
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Shakespeare Documented, coming soon

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Heather Wolfe

It is almost 2016! For the Folger Shakespeare Library, that means we are about to kick off The Wonder of Will, 400 Years of Shakespeare, and one of the first initiatives we have planned as part of our year-long commemoration is Shakespeare Documented.…

EMMO announces the launch of Shakespeare's World
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EMMO announces the launch of Shakespeare's World

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

There are thousands of manuscripts sitting quietly amongst the Folger’s ever-growing collection which Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) aims to transcribe. Earlier this year EMMO collaborated with Zooniverse, a hugely successful online crowd-sourcing platform, so that people all over the…

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