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Manuscripts in libraries: catalog versus finding aid
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Manuscripts in libraries: catalog versus finding aid

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Erin Blake

When searching for manuscripts at the Folger—or pretty much any special collections library—it helps to know that manuscripts often lead a double life. Many exist simultaneously as part of a library, and as part of an archive, and libraries and archives have different…

Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch
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Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch

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Heather Wolfe Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

To kick off the new year at Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), the EMMO team (Paul Dingman, Mike Poston, Sarah Powell, Caitlin Rizzo & Heather Wolfe, with additional thanks to Rebecca Niles) is thrilled to announce the launch of our…

William Shakespeare, Poet and Gentleman
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William Shakespeare, Poet and Gentleman

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Heather Wolfe Michael Witmore

The Guardian newspaper recently published an article about new manuscript discoveries concerning the life of William Shakespeare. These discoveries, made by Heather Wolfe, are described as a decisive blow to the belief that Shakespeare was a front man for someone…

Princely New Year's Gift? A Newly-Discovered Manuscript
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Princely New Year's Gift? A Newly-Discovered Manuscript

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Georgianna Ziegler

What better way to greet the New Year than with a ceremony of gift giving among friends and acquaintances? It was certainly a popular way to celebrate at the courts of Elizabeth I and her successor, James I.

Looking through the hole in a torn-open letter
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Looking through the hole in a torn-open letter

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Erin Blake

Well, I thought the January 2017 Crocodile Mystery was going to be a tricky one, but Misha Teramura not only identified the phenomenon correctly (an endorsement written across the hole created when an early modern letter was torn open at the wax seal),…

A Preview of What the New EMMO Website Will Offer
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A Preview of What the New EMMO Website Will Offer

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Paul Dingman

Manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are going digital with added features for users! The launch of a beta website for Early Modern Manuscripts Online next month will provide encoded transcriptions to accompany manuscript images and metadata. The number of transcriptions…

I have sent you a Privy Seal...
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I have sent you a Privy Seal...

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Heather Wolfe Sarah Powell

The answer to last week’s crocodile mystery? As Jan Kellett correctly pointed out in her comment to the October Crocodile Mystery, the red-orange concentric circles in this image are an “offset mark made by a seal.” The mark was made…

A Recipe’s Place is in the Classroom
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A Recipe’s Place is in the Classroom

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Shakespeare Library is many things: an internationally-renowned research library, a museum, a performance space, a center for innovative digital initiatives, and home to some of the best air conditioning on Capitol Hill (not something to be overlooked during…

Honing transcriptions with algorithms and acumen
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Honing transcriptions with algorithms and acumen

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Paul Dingman

A question I often hear from paleographers who contribute transcriptions to Early Modern Manuscripts Online (or EMMO) is: What are you going to do with all these transcriptions? It’s a good question—central to the whole project, actually—but it’s also a complicated one. The…

Don Quixote on an Early Paper Cover
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Don Quixote on an Early Paper Cover

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare Library recently acquired a copybook with an intriguing pictorial paper cover, and it is, of course, the subject of the crocodile mystery we posted last week. This cover is made of thick paper (thicker than regular paper…

Shakespeare the player: a new discovery sheds light on two Folger manuscripts
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Shakespeare the player: a new discovery sheds light on two Folger manuscripts

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Heather Wolfe

The reference to a coat of arms belonging to “Shakespeare the Player by Garter” in a manuscript at the Folger, V.a.350, has garnered much attention over the years. Folger MS V.a.350 is currently on loan to the British Library for their exhibition Shakespeare…

Music Manuscripts
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Music Manuscripts

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Abbie Weinberg

Recently, I have found myself answering a number of reference questions concerning our musical holdings (a reference librarian manifestation of the frequency illusion perhaps?). Whatever the reason, it has been a nice reminder that some of our manuscript holdings contain…

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