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Fall Round-up for Early Modern Manuscripts Online
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Fall Round-up for Early Modern Manuscripts Online

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

Over the past few months, EMMO has been busy with several first-ever activities connected to transcribing manuscripts at the Folger. In August, we transcribed excerpts from over twenty four manuscripts currently exhibited in the Age of Lawyers Exhibition (running until…

Shakespeare Land
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Shakespeare Land

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Sarah Hovde

As one reader quickly guessed, the photograph featured in last week’s crocodile post is part of an admission ticket to the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s burial place. This ticket is one window onto the growth of tourism in…

“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2015
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2015

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The Collation

Here’s your crocodile mystery for October! As you can probably guess, the text below is only one line of a larger collection item. What kind of thing is the whole item an example of, and why is it in our…

“Beloveed Plays”: A Sammelband of 1680s Quartos & Its Readers
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“Beloveed Plays”: A Sammelband of 1680s Quartos & Its Readers

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Claire M. L. Bourne

A Guest Post by Claire M. L. Bourne A major fringe benefit of systematically going through so many books (1,300+) at the Folger last year, looking for typographic conventions and experiments, was encountering traces of use and reading that have…

An Example of Printed Visual Marginalia
right: image of eagle carrying away a wolf while a second wolf looks on; left: two separate images, one of a single wolf, the second of an eagle carrying off a wolf
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An Example of Printed Visual Marginalia

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare has recently acquired a copy of the 1706 English edition of the travel narrative A New Voyage to the North… (Folger 269- 090q), written by the French physician Pierre Martin de la Martinière (1637-1676?) and published posthumously…

Printers and authors in 1659
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Printers and authors in 1659

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Heather Wolfe

John Ward’s sixteen notebooks, once they are fully transcribed for EMMO, are going to be an incredibly rich source for nearly everyone who thinks about or studies early modern England. Most people have heard about them because of John Ward’s…

Arithmetic is the Art of Computation
poem about arithmetic
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Arithmetic is the Art of Computation

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Paul Dingman Sarah Powell

Yes, the answer to last week’s Crocodile mystery is as obvious as it seemed. We were looking for a number which unites the table, the fractions, and the superfluous but artful penmanship. Answer: 60, of course! What we are actually…

"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?" September 2015
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"What manner o'thing is your crocodile?" September 2015

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The Collation

Whether or not you feel a touch of autumn in the air, here’s a back-to-the-books kind of a mystery from the manuscript collection. What do you make of this colorful image? Submit your guesses and comments below. We’ll be back…

Folger Tooltips: Making a spreadsheet from raw Hamnet data
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Folger Tooltips: Making a spreadsheet from raw Hamnet data

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Erin Blake

Hamnet, the Folger’s online catalog, is more than just a searchable inventory of printed books, manuscripts, engravings, paintings, and other resources in the collection. It is also a giant data set, freely available for machine analysis. But there’s a catch: library catalog data is encoded…

Libraries ǂx Special collections ǂv Blogs
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Libraries ǂx Special collections ǂv Blogs

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Sarah Hovde

How do catalogers make library materials findable? The cataloging process has already been covered here at The Collation—identifying the item and describing its contents so that users and other catalogers alike can compare the book in the catalog record to the…

'I Grapple him to my Soul with hooks of Steel'
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'I Grapple him to my Soul with hooks of Steel'

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Abbie Weinberg

I’m sure all of our readers know that moment when you’re looking for one thing but find something else entirely (some call it serendipity—I just call it research). Such as doing a Name Browse in Hamnet for “Adams” (I believe…

A Pin's Worth: Pins in Books
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A Pin's Worth: Pins in Books

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The object you see tucked in the gathering of the book in this month’s Crocodile Mystery is a pin. Recently, I have become aware of the presence of pins in a number of books at the Folger Shakespeare Library. At…

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