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Folger Tooltips: new cover-to-cover items in our Digital Image Database
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Folger Tooltips: new cover-to-cover items in our Digital Image Database

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Jim Kuhn

  Additions to our Cover-to-cover series have made their way into the Digital Image Database in recent weeks. Among items you can now view in their entirety online are:  Our first fully-digitized Second Folio. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares…

Thomas Shelton's shorthand version of the Lord's Prayer
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Thomas Shelton's shorthand version of the Lord's Prayer

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Heather Wolfe

Commenters to last week’s post, Heirloom apples and pears, anyone?, correctly identified the shorthand text found in Henry Oxinden’s miscellany (Folger MS V.b.110) as the Lord’s Prayer written out according to Thomas Shelton’s method of shorthand, called tachygraphy. Below is…

Colored print or color print?
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Colored print or color print?

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Erin Blake

Consider the following physical description in Hamnet, the Folger’s online catalog (it’s for an edition of Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of women, also published as Shakespeare’s heroines): xl, 340 p., leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 cm. The first…

Heirloom apples and pears, anyone?
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Heirloom apples and pears, anyone?

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Heather Wolfe

We’ll begin with another crocodile-style challenge in this post, from a manuscript miscellany compiled by Henry Oxinden (or Oxenden) (1609-1670) of Barham, Kent, Folger MS V.b.110. Here’s a detail from p. of the miscellany: Can anyone identify what this text…

A book's fingerprints
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A book's fingerprints

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Sarah Werner

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…

"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": May edition
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"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": May edition

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The Collation

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…

Folger Tooltips: updates on links to early Shakespeare editions
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Folger Tooltips: updates on links to early Shakespeare editions

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Jim Kuhn

Hello dear readers: Past tooltip posts have highlighted various efforts at digital outreach to academics, e.g., via links to our Digital image database from Hamnet, or from finding aids. But fulfilling the mission of the Folger requires more than that—among…

News of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572
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News of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572

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Erin Blake

When the Swann Auction Gallery catalog for the March 15 sale crossed my desk, I flipped through as usual, looking for things that might fit the Folger’s collection development policy. I wasn’t paying too much attention, since it was primarily…

Dye to live, live to dye
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Dye to live, live to dye

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Heather Wolfe Margaret Hannay

The Folger has recently acquired some interesting hybrid books; that is, books which consist of a mixture of thematically-connected printed, manuscript, and graphic material gathered from a variety of sources into a single binding. Sidney scholar and Folger reader Margaret…

Rehousing our tinsel print collection
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Rehousing our tinsel print collection

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Rhea DeStefano

Tinsel prints are a unique English art form from the early and mid-19th century. They are typically composed of metal foils, fabric scraps, leather, feathers, and any other suitable material glued onto printed portraits of actors and actresses. Theatrical tinsel…

From Stage to E-page: Theater Archives at the Folger Library
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From Stage to E-page: Theater Archives at the Folger Library

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Georgianna Ziegler

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC opened in 1932. It is representative of a private institution whose collections were very much shaped by the interest of its founders, Henry and Emily Folger. Fortunately for theater historians, the Folgers were…

Folger Tooltips: Finding aids upgraded with links to digital images
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Folger Tooltips: Finding aids upgraded with links to digital images

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Jim Kuhn

While work continues to add to the Folger Digital Image Collection, and new finding aids continue to be added to the Folger Finding Aid Database, staff and interns are also busy upgrading existing finding aids with links to digital images.…

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