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A third manuscript by Thomas Trevelyon/Trevilian
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A third manuscript by Thomas Trevelyon/Trevilian

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Heather Wolfe

The author’s name in the Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 (Folger MS V.b.232, fol. 264v); click image to enlarge in Luna. Many Collation readers are already familiar with the Folger’s Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 (Folger MS V.b.232), and the fabulous Trevilian…

"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": December edition
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"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": December edition

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The Collation

If it’s a new month, it must be time for a new crocodile mystery, and so: click to enlarge As always, we invite your your thoughts below on what this might be and what we might learn from it!

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…

Folger Tooltips: Media group wrangling, part one
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Folger Tooltips: Media group wrangling, part one

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Jim Kuhn

Our last tooltip covered how to create your own login for the Folger digital image databases, and once logged in how to create and begin working with media groups. Today we’ll focus on some useful features of your media groups…

Such a lucky pretty little library...
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Such a lucky pretty little library...

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Heather Wolfe

First leaf of Visus Libelli (a little book of advices) We thought we’d kick off your weekend with an amusing and fascinating hybrid book that is ripe for research. The as-yet unidentified compiler of this late seventeenth-century, ca. 800-leaf volume,…

Itty-bitty tab dividers
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Itty-bitty tab dividers

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Erin Blake

The main trick with November’s “crocodile” was having to figure out the scale. It looks at first glance like a woolly button on a pin-striped shirt: The November ‘Crocodile’ But when a ruler is included in the shot, you can…

“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November edition
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November edition

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The Collation

And now, for your viewing pleasure, we present this month’s crocodile mystery. What is it? How was it made? What size is it? Would it sell well as a postcard in the Folger gift shop? This caption intentionally blank. Please…

A new copy of Foxe's Actes and Monuments
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A new copy of Foxe's Actes and Monuments

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Georgianna Ziegler

The Folger Shakespeare Library already has two copies of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments, published in 1570, so why would we want another, especially as it is only volume 1, of a two-volume set? The answer provides a good example…

Folger Tooltips: Digital image database logins and media groups
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Folger Tooltips: Digital image database logins and media groups

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Jim Kuhn

Dear Fellow Collators: Today’s post focuses once again on powerful but perhaps under-utilized features of our digital image databases. Recent tips have dealt with saving static URLs to get back to previous searches or to individual images, and saving static…

The Return of the Prodigal Painting(s)
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The Return of the Prodigal Painting(s)

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Erin Blake

I’d guess that few people look at Appendix III in the back of William L. Pressly, Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library (Yale University Press, 1993). Appendix III is unillustrated, not very detailed, and rather depressing: it’s the list…

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…

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