Skip to main content

The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Sunday, February 23, for a staff training exercise. Normal hours will resume when the Folger opens on Tuesday, February 25, at 11:00am.

All 1 posts on

long-s

u/v, i/j, and transcribing other early modern textual oddities
Collation

u/v, i/j, and transcribing other early modern textual oddities

Posted
Author
Sarah Werner

When you’re encountering early modern texts for the first time, you might be surprised not only that they use such variable spelling (heart? hart? harte?) but they seem to use the wrong letters in some places. And then there are…