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Comment on First Folios online by Sarah Werner

Sarah Werner — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:48:19 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I’ll update the post to include this copy.

Comment on First Folios online by H. J. Neuhaus

H. J. Neuhaus — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:51:21 +0000

Greetings from Münster

Thank you for your account on online First Folios.

Perhaps you may also be interested in the Stuttgart First Folio:

Anthony James West 2003 The Shakespeare First Folio …
No. 197 Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart [Lee 23 Class IB]
“A tall copy in good condition.”

Persistant Identifier: http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz34999692X
[DFGViewer]

The Württembergische Landesbibliothek viewer:
http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/digitale-sammlungen/seitenansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlfid=2103&tx_dlfpage=1

H. J. Neuhaus
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Comment on Learning to write the alphabet by @bradamant

@bradamant — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:03:55 +0000

Folger Library on learning to write in early modern era. I write my “d”s in secretary style! Via @erik_kwakkel. http://t.co/OnDIfBRZJe

Comment on Learning to write the alphabet by Sam Kaislaniemi

Sam Kaislaniemi — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:12:36 +0000

Delightful stuff!

Jeremiah Mills’s second attempt at the alphabet ends “r s t w _h_ y z” – perhaps a confusion of ‘aitch’ vs ‘ecks’? (Allowing for EModE pronunciation.) Which suggests in turn that Jeremiah was writing from dictation – probably his own..!

Comment on Learning to write the alphabet by @avoiding_bears

@avoiding_bears — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:16:05 +0000

I love the @FolgerResearch blog. It’s ace. Here’s Heather Wolfe on early modern (and modern!) folk learning to write: http://t.co/IL1Bf6BhLY

Comment on Learning to write the alphabet by @PHrarebooks

@PHrarebooks — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:46:43 +0000

A wonderful, in-depth post on how children learned to read & write during the early modern era: http://t.co/RgyRSFkNun

Comment on Pen facsimiles of early print by @bookish_type

@bookish_type — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:23 +0000

Don’t bitch about the office copier breaking again…check out these incredible pen facsimiles: http://t.co/8ZbmcpTkhL

Comment on Fore-edge paintings by Bookmarking Book Art — Fore-edge Painting | Books On Books

Bookmarking Book Art — Fore-edge Painting | Books On Books — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:48:30 +0000

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Comment on A third manuscript by Thomas Trevelyon/Trevilian by Martin

Martin — Sat, 11 May 2013 23:05:57 +0000

Fascinating; I’m so glad it was worth following up.

Comment on Winning the lottery by Michael Witmore

Michael Witmore — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:09:47 +0000

Goran,

Thanks for this wonderfully illuminating post. I noticed that lots here are coordinated with an array of “posies” or short verses. It would be nice to know what these posies were.

Thanks again for this piece,

Mike

Comment on Pen facsimiles of early print by Erin Blake

Erin Blake — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:20:23 +0000

Dealer’s description of a Second Folio just arrived in my in-box. It says, ‘The “To the Reader” leaf and title-page are expertly accomplished antique facsimiles on old paper and the final Cymbeline leaf as these, all done many years ago in completely unobtrusive and very skilled workmanship.’

Reminds me of the sign in a shop window down the street advertising “original reproductions” of John F. Kennedy inauguration invitations.

Comment on First Folios online by Robert O'Brien

Robert O'Brien — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:32:28 +0000

Thanks.

Comment on Pen facsimiles of early print by Patricia Fumerton

Patricia Fumerton — Tue, 07 May 2013 03:59:06 +0000

Well done! –EBBA

Comment on “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: May 2013 by Sarah Werner

Sarah Werner — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:16:42 +0000

I’m not sure what’s happening. The two long-s’s that I see with the missing crossbar (“husband” in the last line of verse 2 and “shalbe” in the last line of verse 3) both clearly have crossbars in the copy that’s at Penn but in the copy that’s in EEBO (taken from a copy at Cambridge), “husband” seems to be missing its crossbar. (Of course, the quality of the EEBO images make it hard to be sure what details I’m seeing or not.)

I suspect it’s the facsimilist who is not used to thinking in terms of the long-s; I noticed that there’s a far range of variation in the length of the bar on the other long-s’s in the facsimile. But I haven’t looked at many blackletter manuscripts to see what happens in those. I think there’s some browsing ahead of me!

Comment on “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: May 2013 by Erin Blake

Erin Blake — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:40:55 +0000

I noticed that (at least) two of the long esses are missing the partial crossbar on the left. Does that kind of variation in the same passage happen with manuscript blackletter? Or is it just an error by the facsimilist? (Or for that matter, did the printed original have a couple of pieces of damaged type?)