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The Folger’s Mazarinades: Libraries within Libraries
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The Folger’s Mazarinades: Libraries within Libraries

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Kathryn Gucer

A guest post by Kathryn Gucer In 1652, Gabriel Naudé argued passionately for the importance of libraries and collecting books in a brief pamphlet, Advis a nosseigneurs de Parliament. Naudé repudiates a proposal by the parliament of Paris to break…

Capital News from the Low Countries
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Capital News from the Low Countries

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Goran Proot

What from a distance may look like a pasture, perhaps with oddly shaped poppies or some other flowers on the foreground and two buildings in the background, is actually much less pleasant. (Click any image in this post to enlarge…

Winning the lottery
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Winning the lottery

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Goran Proot

On Saturday 4 November 1617, the archdukes of the Southern Netherlands, Albert and Isabella, granted permission to the “gentil homme Lucquois” Matthias Micheli to organize a lottery for the foundation of the “Bergen van Barmhartigheid” or “Monts de piété.” First…

Cataloging at the Folger: a Primer
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Cataloging at the Folger: a Primer

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Deborah J. Leslie

When I meet people for the first time and they hear that I am a rare book cataloger, I can expect one or both of these questions: “What’s a rare book,” and “What is cataloging?” This crowd doesn’t need my…

Second Thoughts on Second Editions. The Dutch Fingerprint (Part II)
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Second Thoughts on Second Editions. The Dutch Fingerprint (Part II)

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Goran Proot

In my previous Collation post I explained what a bibliographic fingerprint is and how it works. The examples I will discuss in this post will demonstrate how useful the fingerprint is to compare copies remotely and to identify title editions…

Detective Work: The Dutch Fingerprint (Part I)
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Detective Work: The Dutch Fingerprint (Part I)

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Goran Proot

Previous Collation posts may convince even the most skeptical reader that bibliographic work often requires detective work. In some cases, this may involve bibliographers to take fingerprints. Fingerprints are regularly used by bibliographers to find out whether or not two…

A treasure chest 6.75 meters long
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A treasure chest 6.75 meters long

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Goran Proot

It is not a secret that in most libraries—and I am tempted to write “in all libraries”—treasures are slumbering and waiting for their discovery. This sort of thing may happen when you least expect it, for instance when you call…

Q & A: Goran Proot, Curator of Rare Books
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Q & A: Goran Proot, Curator of Rare Books

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The Collation

Goran Proot On June 1st, Goran Proot became the new Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Now that he’s had a chance to settle in a bit, it’s time for us to introduce him…

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