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Research and Exploration at the Folger

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A Yellow Book
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A Yellow Book

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Thank you to those who have tried to solve this month’s Crocodile mystery regarding the yellow color of a book, which can be found in the Stickelberger collection of Reformation at the Folger Shakespeare Library (more on this collection in…

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2017
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2017

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The mystery this month isn’t about what the text is (these pages are excerpts from a Calvinist Bible in French printed in Geneva in 1588) but rather it’s about the paper. What is going on here? Leave your thoughts and…

A New ASECS-Folger Short Term Fellowship
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A New ASECS-Folger Short Term Fellowship

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Institute is delighted to announce a fellowship in partnership with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. This $2,500 award will allow its recipient a one-month residency at the Folger Library in Washington, DC. The fellowship is interdisciplinary, and…

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 a New Fellowship with the Omohundro Institute
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Announcing a New Fellowship with the Omohundro Institute

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger is known for our Shakespeare collections, but our holdings support research on all aspects of British and European literary, cultural, political, religious, theatrical, and social history from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries: and that includes materials that…

A promptbook in disguise
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A promptbook in disguise

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Sarah Hovde

It’s time to pull back the curtain on last week’s crocodile mystery: that weird woven material is a close-up photograph of the cover of a promptbook! Both commenters who took a guess last week came pretty close. This particular promptbook was…

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2017
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2017

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The Collation

Welcome to February’s crocodile mystery! Here’s a close-up view of something from the vault: What item is it from? What purpose does it serve? Leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the…

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…

Folger copy 54: From family library to research library
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Folger copy 54: From family library to research library

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Kathleen Lynch

Folger First Folio number 54 traveled over 10,000 miles from Washington D.C., to San Diego California and Honolulu, Hawaii, during our First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare tour, and is on view in our Great Hall through January…

Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
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Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay

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Amanda Herbert Georgianna Ziegler

We’re proud to announce the creation of a new fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. In partnership with the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the Folger Institute will offer a fellowship to scholars working on studies of…

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. Gifts came…

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