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Nadia Seiler

was Rare Materials Cataloger at the Folger Shakespeare Library from 2010 through 2014; our tribute to her cataloging and her love of manuscripts can be read in our memorial post.
"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes
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"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes

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“For a cancer in the brest” The large penstrokes of this title caught my eye as I was cataloging a recently acquired receipt book (a book of culinary and medicinal recipes). In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we…

Watermarks & hidden collections
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Watermarks & hidden collections

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Hidden collections—that is, collections that are undescribed or underdescribed—are exceedingly common in libraries and archives. Until recently, the manuscript and printed paper that make up the E. Williams watermark collection, including papers of the Hale family of King’s Walden and…