Welcome to the end of another month and another Crocodile Mystery. This month’s Crocodile is brought to you by Folger manuscripts! Here’s a detail from a bifolium that is part of a collection of papers described at the item-level in our finding aids. The collection is partly artificial, but the bifolium seems to be connected to other bifolia within the collection, even though their call numbers are not consecutive. What am I, and what collection do I come from?
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It’s a string of letters first in the English alphabet and then in the Greek alphabet – not sure what collection it’s from though!
Alexandra — May 30, 2017
That’s what it is. Why, though?
Heather Wolfe — May 31, 2017
Could it be a way to see how many written line can fill this page??
Michele — June 2, 2017
Or a means of generating call numbers/catalog numbers, in conjunction with similarly written sheets of paper?
Or a sort of “form” for constructing an index?
Anthony — June 5, 2017