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Pew-hopping in St. Margaret's Church
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Pew-hopping in St. Margaret's Church

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Heather Wolfe Kathleen Lynch

Manuscripts of unusual shapes and sizes are always fun to investigate, and we recently had the opportunity to reevaluate a particularly large and interesting one, a ca. 1600 “pew plan” written on a piece of parchment (Folger MS X.d.395), in…

Spectral Imaging of Shakespeare's "Seventh Signature"
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Spectral Imaging of Shakespeare's "Seventh Signature"

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Roger L. Easton, Jr.

A guest post by Roger L. Easton, Jr. One of the many treasures at the Folger Shakespeare Library is a copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia, a book on Anglo-Saxon law published in 1568 and acquired by the Library in 1938.…