Folger Collections

Lingua Latina Medica Accessabilis Facta, vel Febrem Habeo et Præscriptio Sola Campanæ Bovinæ Plus Est or Medical Latin Made Accessible, or I Have a Fever and the Only Prescription is More (of) Cow Bell. A look into John Ward’s Latin list, a glossary of the medical Latin terms used by the 17th century vicar in his diaries.

Senior Photography Associate William Davis shares his five favorite collection items in our new series: Folger Faves.

Take a look at our top five Collation posts from 2025. Thanks for a great year!

Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.

“Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th-century manuscript.

An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany

Have you ever noticed a decorated paper on a volume in our collection and wondered how it was made?

The solution to this month’s Folger Mystery reveals the purpose of dots and slashes drawn in early modern account books

More new exciting additions to the Folger collection!

Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints, highlights some exciting new items in the Folger collection

A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.