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2026 32

  1. Race B4 Race 2026, Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why
  2. Q & A: Aaron Pratt, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints
  3. Race B4 Race 2026, Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why
  4. Animal Magnetism: Absorption and Attraction in Early Modern Recipes
  5. High Flying Pages
  6. How to Conjure Demons Using the Holdings at the Folger Shakespeare Library: A Primer
  7. The Library of Edward Dale: Revisiting 'The Earliest Recorded Shakespeare in America'
  8. International Dog Day: Delightful Dogs From the Photo Album of Ellen Terry
  9. Artificial Intelligence, 1588
  10. 230+ Years of Holding It Together
  11. A Pedagogical Pilot: A Folger Consortium First in Undergraduate Education
  12. Charles Parker's 'Monumenta Quaedam Poetica': A New English Jesuit Dramatic Manuscript
  13. Roguery and Redemption in 'Stanleyes Remedy' (1646)
  14. Some More Birthdays
  15. Through the Photographer’s Lens
  16. Re-writing and Reimagining Early Modern Witchcraft Through Creative Practice
  17. Interview and excerpt: Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood on 'Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage'
  18. The one (fem.)
  19. Drafting Narratives: Weaving, Sequence, and Story in the Folger Library Archive
  20. For the Love of Laughter: Early Modern Improv and Comedy
  21. Undergraduate Research at the Folger: The Birth of Mankinde
  22. Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Picturing the Plotters
  23. Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Pain in the Teeth
  24. Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Imagining Shakespeare's School Days
  25. "A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye": An Unnamed Fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
  26. Folger Mysteries: February 2026
  27. Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 4: What We’re Reading and Why
  28. Undergraduate Research at the Folger: Why Shakespeare Keeps Returning to Ovid
  29. Lingua Latina Medica Accessabilis Facta, or, Medical Latin Made Accessible
  30. Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 3: What We’re Reading and Why
  31. Folger Faves: January 2026
  32. Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why

2025 42

  1. Top five Collation blog posts of 2025
  2. “Greetings from Jamaica”
  3. How to be a true widow in early modern England
  4. Third Time’s a Charm: W. Blount Reads Sidney’s Arcadia
  5. Working Through the Tangle: Language, Archives, and Practice
  6. Miscellaneous Race
  7. Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why
  8. A Closer Look at Paste Papers with Folger Conservators
  9. Anthony Burgess and Shakespeare
  10. Dots and Slashes in Early Modern English Account Books: A Window into the Material Practices of Reckoning
  11. Folger Mysteries, September 2025 edition
  12. Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
  13. Beyond National Boundaries: A Season of New Acquisitions, Part II
  14. Beyond National Boundaries: A Season of New Acquisitions, Part I
  15. “A smale remembrance”: Elizabethan Posy Rings
  16. North Africa Through the Eyes of England
  17. What of Shakespeare?
  18. Conservation Interns at Work
  19. “I have lately been promoted to the ‘big douche’”
  20. Performing Race in the London Lord Mayors’ Show, 1660-1708
  21. Defining Beauty in Text and Image in the late Seventeenth-Century
  22. Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weeds, and Biodiversity Loss
  23. Adages and Annotations
  24. Semantics: Ars Minor or Ars Major?
  25. Thomas Nashe’s Almond for a Parrat (1590), corrected by the author
  26. Color of Character: Racial Cues in the Visual Othello
  27. Twelfth Night in the Folger Collection
  28. Sitting with the Book of Martyrs
  29. Deep Dive into Gorakh Dhanda or what Partington thought of Indian Shakespeare in 1913
  30. Mid-20th-Century Rare Book Rebindings
  31. Finding Beulah
  32. C. Walter Hodges and Reconstructed Shakespearean Theatres
  33. They Lied then, They Lie Now: A Native Perspective on Columbus and Current Events
  34. The Mirror and The Light in the Folger collection
  35. Or else I’m a Jew | a series of abstractions
  36. Discovering Paolo Bozi’s Rappresentatione Del Giudicio Vniuersale
  37. The Curious Papers of the Curious Dr. Stukeley
  38. Seeking and Finding: Using the Collection in an Undergraduate Writing Class
  39. Unsexing St. Agatha
  40. Race B4 Race 2024 Seminar 4: What We’re Reading and Why
  41. Sweet Blood: A Play in Progress
  42. A Collection-Inspired Zine

2024 38

  1. Race B4 Race 2024 Seminar 3: What We’re Reading and Why
  2. Even them?! Loving the neighbour in Shakespeare and early modern England
  3. Anthony Trollope reads Christopher Marlowe
  4. Convivial Cleopatra
  5. Covering Esther, or What Happens When Renaissance Woman Esther Inglis Exchanges Her Brush and Pen for a Needle: Examining Embroidery Through Reproduction
  6. Race B4 Race 2024 Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why
  7. The ballad of the woodworm, or ‘reading’ holes in woodblocks
  8. Folger Mysteries: October 2024
  9. Welcome to the Banquet
  10. Race B4 Race 2024 Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why
  11. Unintentionally blank pages
  12. Folger Mysteries: September 2024
  13. Drinking with Shakespeare: Early Modern Tavern Tokens
  14. Early Modern Piracy: A Matter of Perspective
  15. Folger Deep Dives: Memory, marginalia, and the art of reading, V.b.32 and beyond
  16. Making Meaning of Adapted Shakespeare: White Femininity in Re-Imaginings of Measure for Measure
  17. The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate
  18. Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
  19. Two versions of Thomas Cromwell's very urgent letter conveying Henry VIII's impatience over his impending marriage to Anne of Cleves
  20. Folger Mysteries (formerly known as "What manner o' thing is your crocodile"): May 2024
  21. A ‘declineing time’? The final illnesses of Constance and Elizabeth Lucy
  22. “The Problem of the Theatre”
  23. There's the Short and the Long 'ſ/f'
  24. Card catalog holder-opener
  25. "What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?": April 2024
  26. Beyond a Cure for Plague
  27. Charles T. Grilley and the Garrick letter
  28. Interview and excerpt: Jessica Goethals, Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
  29. Marmalade boxes, Lenten fasts, and love
  30. Remembering Laetitia Yeandle, Curator of Manuscripts (1930-2024)
  31. Who Cares about Care?
  32. Puzzling Through a Stage Direction in Love’s Labor’s Lost
  33. Our new digital collections site is here!
  34. “To re-back, or not to re-back”
  35. Flamboyant Plants
  36. Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View
  37. Mariam Rising: A Short Closet Play by Jay Eddy
  38. The Jew of Malta and Empire

2023 57

  1. Race B4 Race Seminar 4: What We’re Reading and Why
  2. Of Actors, Playwrights, and Porcupines
  3. Interview and excerpt: Joseph Mansky, Libels and Theater in Shakespeare’s England: Publics, Politics, Performance
  4. Race B4 Race Seminar 3: What We’re Reading and Why
  5. Acquiring the Vincent First Folio: A Bibliophilic Drama in Two Parts (Part 2)
  6. Acquiring the Vincent First Folio: A Bibliophilic Drama in Two Parts (Part 1)
  7. The Americas Gaze upon Europe, 1492-1800
  8. Venice paper, bacon, and quiet luxury
  9. Folger tooltips: "Narrow by collection" in the catalog
  10. Race B4 Race Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why
  11. A window on the (Ward) world
  12. How To Find 14 Missing Pages of a Rare Book
  13. Race B4 Race Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why
  14. The Address Leaf of the Early Modern Letter
  15. George Saunders in happier times
  16. Engraving the Courtesan: Sex Work and “The Renaissance” in Victorian Books
  17. Exit, Pursued by a Polar? Bear
  18. Re-Framing the Copy
  19. Reattribution of M.a.11, An account of the many fine seats of noblemen &c. (1763)
  20. Interview and excerpt: Jennie M. Votava, Shakespeare’s Histories On Screen: Adaptation, Race and Intersectionality
  21. Postcards in the (home) archive 1965–1985
  22. The Queen and Pungent Times: Elizabeth I and the politics of smell
  23. David and Eva Garricks’ Villa at Hampton: Shakespeare in the Landscape
  24. Silence
  25. The Royal Arctic Theatre and HMS Resolute
  26. Interview and excerpt: Debapriya Sarkar, Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science
  27. Postcards in the (home) archive 1953–1964
  28. FAST FACTS about our FAST ACCS (early modern manuscript edition)
  29. A Game at Chess: Popularity and Controversy
  30. In Search of Nature’s Not-So-Lost Treasures: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg on Ecology
  31. Folger Tooltips: Exporting a spreadsheet of catalog data
  32. Philanthropy and Torture: Linking Workhouses and Plantations
  33. Postcards in the (home) archive 1949–52
  34. The Amateur of Fashion: Robert "Romeo" Coates
  35. Christian baking molds from Early Modern Europe
  36. On racial suffocation and the early modern humanities
  37. A 17th Century Letter Collection, Part 3: Farming in Early Modern England, 1630-1632
  38. Murmuration: Shakespeare in Flight
  39. Printing plays in Mexico
  40. Experiences of Captivity in the Books of John Smith
  41. Introducing our new finding aids website
  42. "What’s in a name?" That which we call [primitive] by any other word...
  43. Othello: what’s in a name?
  44. A 17th Century Letter Collection, Part 2: Travelling Around Early Modern England, 1630-1632
  45. Censorship and the Valladolid Folio
  46. The Carib Garifuna Chief: Transatlantic Images of Chatoyer in the Early 19th Century
  47. Postcards in the (home) archive 1946–48
  48. Should Ophelia Die in the 21st Century?
  49. Notes for future reference
  50. Changes they are a comin'! (They're here!)
  51. How to ask a reference question
  52. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: February 2023
  53. “To the right Wor[shipfu]ll and my very louinge freinde the Lady Powell …”: A 17th Century Letter Collection
  54. The problems with adapting Coriolanus, and why we should try anyway
  55. Corpse Medicine
  56. A Bill of Lading and a Merchant of London (and of Venice)
  57. A Master Tailor’s Manual

2022 61

  1. Seasons' Greetings
  2. Postcards in the (home) archive 1944-1945
  3. Recipes for Survival
  4. Twill tape, plus toggles, plus toggler, equals quick-ties
  5. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2022
  6. Interpreting Systems that Make Place
  7. The habitability of our planet—is it only a contemporary issue?
  8. When Past is Prologue: Munro, Malley, and the #IranRevolution
  9. An Italian Naturalist in England
  10. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November 2022
  11. Condicions agreed vppon: a 17th century Polish-Turkish treaty
  12. Postcards Folger Directors Sent Me
  13. The Fairy King’s Grimoire
  14. “Good Grief! What’s That?”: Odd Images in the Folger Microfilm Image Collection
  15. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2022
  16. Macbeth and the End of Slavery in the United States
  17. The art of dying
  18. Folger manuscripts out and about: a field trip to Penn!
  19. Frederick William MacMonnies, Shakespeare, circa 1895
  20. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: September 2022
  21. Q & A: David McKenzie, Head of Exhibitions
  22. Innogen and Ghost Characters
  23. Postcards in the (home) archive 1942-43
  24. When the Body is Ill, The Mind Suffers: Shakespeare's Unravelling of Women’s Hysteria and Madness in the Elizabethan Era
  25. Stealing Signs
  26. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: August 2022
  27. My True Meaning: emotions in seventeenth-century wills
  28. Performing Diplomacy and Selling Spectacle
  29. 2022-2023 Folger Fellows
  30. Europa into the Waves: John Dee and Meandering Research
  31. Caught Inky Handed: Fingerprints of Practitioners
  32. Happy Retirement, Hamnet!
  33. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: July 2022
  34. The Meaning/s of Massacre
  35. Women Patrons as Playmakers
  36. Warwick Castle Shakespeare Library
  37. Our new catalog is here!
  38. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: June 2022
  39. Reading Shakespeare in English in Eighteenth-Century Spain
  40. The Harmsworth Collection
  41. Postcards in the (home) archive: 1941
  42. Not for the faint of heart
  43. Invitation to preview our new catalog
  44. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: May 2022
  45. Postcards in the (home) archive 1940
  46. Different versions of a print, or different states?
  47. Printed Pamphlets for the Witch of Wapping
  48. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2022
  49. Interview and excerpt: Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
  50. A Blessing to Booksellers
  51. Visualizing Shakespeare’s Birds
  52. 18th-century watchpapers
  53. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2022
  54. A Folger Original: Edwin Eliott Willoughby
  55. Interview and excerpt: Paul Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
  56. Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland
  57. Slurrop! An ode to soup
  58. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2022
  59. Q & A: Ashley Buchanan, Associate Director for Fellowships, Folger Institute
  60. George Goodwin, neo-Latin poet, identified as George Goodwin, rector of Moreton, Essex
  61. Trappings of the stage

2021 62

  1. "What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: January 2022
  2. Postcards in the (home) archive: 1939
  3. Recipe Books, Plague Cures and the Circulation of Information
  4. The book thief
  5. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2021
  6. A Glimpse into the Cultural History of Fragaria
  7. The mystery of Humphrey Walcot’s grocery bill and early-modern popular numeracy
  8. What's in a playbill?
  9. Postcards in the (home) archive: 1938
  10. Small Latin and Less Greek
  11. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: November 2021
  12. Camaraderie, congeniality, and collaboration: paleography at the Folger
  13. Picturing Children’s Food in Early Modern Europe
  14. Three chords and the truth
  15. Extra-Illustrating Othello
  16. Romeo and...
  17. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: October 2021
  18. Should we care where Lucy Hutchinson went to church?
  19. Postcards in the (home) archive: Folger postcards, 1937
  20. The Folger G.K. Hall Catalogs, or How to fit an entire card catalog on your bookshelf
  21. A briefing on brevigraphs, those strange shapes in early printed texts
  22. Unsung Travelers: a history of global mobility from below
  23. Paper Trades
  24. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: September 2021
  25. Focus on a Decade of Folger Institute Research and Community
  26. The Production of Whiteness in the Anglo-French Match (1625)
  27. When Blog History Meets Book History
  28. Book History, Manuscript Studies, and Navigating Special Collections During COVID-19
  29. An Experiment in Following a Worm Through a Folded Letter
  30. The Pirates of H.M.S. Pinafore
  31. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: August 2021
  32. Postcards in the (home) archive: Folger postcards, 1936
  33. 2021-2022 Folger Research Fellows
  34. A Conservation Intern’s Observations on STC 2608
  35. Reading Anatomy Texts Like Poetry (and why we should do it more often)
  36. Decoding Early Modern Gossip
  37. Expurgation with decoration: type ornaments as replacement text
  38. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: July 2021
  39. New Acquisition: Photographs of an early 20th-century production of Hamlet in Japan
  40. Folger-Penn Press interview and excerpt: Megan Heffernan, Making the Miscellany
  41. Postcards in the (home) archive: Folger postcards, 1935
  42. Malicious teaseling: or how a simple reference question got complicated
  43. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: June 2021
  44. A recipe for brioche (knitting)
  45. Facial Misrecognition
  46. Birds, Beasts, Maps, and Books: The Search for Richard Daniel, Esquire
  47. Postcards in the (Home) Archive: Folger Postcards, 1934
  48. Play it again, Ham
  49. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2021
  50. Documenting mistakes in our documentation
  51. Pre-pandemic phone photo fails
  52. Making rum in unexpected places
  53. Marks on Bindings
  54. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2021
  55. Postcards in the (home) archive: Meriden Gravure Co. postally unused postcards with messages
  56. 24,000 “preliminary” catalog records are better than nothing!
  57. Balancing information and expertise: vernacular guidance on bloodletting in early modern calendars and almanacs
  58. Fortune’s Fools: early tarot cards
  59. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2021
  60. This Post Stinks, or, ‘I hope that the stuff will not smell too vilely’
  61. Touching Tusser
  62. Using cardboard spacers to fill gaps on the shelf

2020 61

  1. The Art of the Prompt Book
  2. Postcards in the (home) archive: Brenda Putnam and Puck
  3. A Cacique By Any Other Name
  4. Liverpool delft transfer-printed tiles; or, theatrical tiles explain’d
  5. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2020
  6. Creating John Gregory’s Bas Reliefs at the Folger
  7. Postcards of the Folger: Richard the Third, Hamlet, First Part Henry the Fovrth
  8. Idols of the Reformation
  9. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November 2020
  10. Postcards of the Folger: Macbeth, Ivlivs Caesar, King Lear
  11. Introducing the Folger Reference Image Collection
  12. An Unfinished Title Page Border?
  13. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2020
  14. Who was a refugee in early modern England? The “Poor Palatines” of 1709
  15. Re-discovering three-cornered notes
  16. Postcards of the Folger: Midsommer, Romeo and Ivliet, Merchant of Venice
  17. A guided tour of an incunabulum from 1478
  18. Thoroughly Modern Helena
  19. Birdbrained
  20. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: September 2020
  21. The “Quartermaster’s Map” of England and Wales
  22. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: August, 2020
  23. 2020-2021 Folger Research Fellows
  24. Emily Jordan Folger and Joseph Quincy Adams
  25. Getting Dressed with the Hermaphrodites
  26. Heraldic Colors
  27. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: July 2020
  28. Announcing the Earle Hyman Collection
  29. Postcards in the Folger Archives: British Sea Captain John Robinson and Henry Folger
  30. Words with pictures, or, What's in a name?
  31. Pandemic Paleography
  32. Early women buying books: the evidence
  33. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: June 2020
  34. "To Madame Sarah"
  35. Inside the Folger Archives: Uncle Henry's Pipers
  36. First Folger Director: William Adams Slade, Part III
  37. Following the Trail of Counterfeits in the Folger’s Reformation Collection
  38. A red proof sheet used as printer's waste
  39. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: May 2020
  40. The "Greco Deco" Folger Shakespeare Library
  41. Marks in Manuals
  42. Hooked on Book Furniture...
  43. Subscribing to the blog
  44. The Many Different Ways to Make a Lacemaking Pattern Book: The Case of Vinciolo's Book
  45. All the Purposes of a Library: a piece of blue ephemera
  46. Reading the Past and Researching During COVID-19
  47. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2020
  48. First Folger Director: William Adams Slade, Part II
  49. Strange New World: Folger Resources for Online Learning and Teaching
  50. A Wyncoll's Tale
  51. Dining with the Hermaphrodites: Courtly Excess and Dietary Manuals in Early Modern France
  52. A late 15th-century tapestry fragment with visible restorations
  53. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: March 2020
  54. First Folger Director: William Adams Slade, Part I
  55. "Lusty" sack possets, fertility, and the foodways of early modern weddings
  56. Mellow Yellow and 50 Shades of Grey: the challenges of bi-tonal images
  57. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: February 2020
  58. Ben Greet: “Thank God for Henry Clay Folger”
  59. Sizing Shakespeare's Sonnets
  60. The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellany
  61. Happy New Year (by one calendar anyway)

2019 64

  1. December Greetings
  2. The Wandering Soul: On Meeting Theadora Wilkin
  3. No Standard Oil Company? No Shakespeare Collection!
  4. Let there be light! Kliegl lights on the New York Stage
  5. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2019
  6. Stuff in Books: a conundrum
  7. Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II
  8. A Dictionary for Don Quixote
  9. What are ancient coins doing at the Folger Shakespeare Library?
  10. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: November 2019
  11. Learning to Weep: Early Modern Readers Reading Saint Peters Complaint (1595)
  12. Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part I
  13. Early modern straws; or, quills are not just for writing
  14. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: October 2019
  15. The Newsy Baronet: how Richard Newdigate (per)used his newsletters
  16. Printed Elizabethan poetry now included in Union First Line Index
  17. Emily Jordan Folger’s Deltiological Profile
  18. Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book
  19. 2019-2020 Folger Fellows
  20. Book Stamps
  21. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: September 2019
  22. Summer Retrospective: Deciphering Signature Marks
  23. Summer Retrospective: Uncut, unopened, untrimmed, uh-oh
  24. Introduction to a Slightly Modified Theme: Postcards in the (home) archive
  25. Launching Global Environmental History: Dr. Thomas Short on Air and Diseases in 1749
  26. Summer Retrospective: All About Paper
  27. Postcards in the Folger Archives: The 1879 Hyde Prize in Oratory at Amherst College
  28. Summer Retrospective: Early modern eyebrow interpretation
  29. Summer Retrospective: Woodcut, engraving, or what?
  30. Summer Retrospective
  31. "What's in a Name?" or, Going Sideways
  32. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: July 2019
  33. All the world and half a dozen lemons
  34. Portrait of a Young African Woman
  35. Drawn by Hayman, etched by Gravelot, preserved in Folger ART Vol. b72
  36. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: June 2019
  37. A Wild and Woolley Week
  38. Snakes! on a ... book?
  39. “Run away”: a life in 78 words
  40. To bind: Ligatures in Aldine Type
  41. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: May 2019
  42. The Location of Plates in a Book
  43. One page, four inscriptions, three households
  44. SAA? FSL!
  45. British Book Illustrations
  46. The evolution of collection practices: a case study
  47. Mapping Shakespeare's plays: an experiment
  48. Uncancelling the cancelled: recovering obliterated owners of old books
  49. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2019
  50. Almanacs as Underdogs
  51. Accounting for Relationships: the Drury Lane Financial Records
  52. What is the scope of the STC?
  53. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2019
  54. Come Hither, Actors / Physicality
  55. Come Hither, Actors / Mentality
  56. Come Hither, Actors / Temporality
  57. Come Hither, Actors / Textuality
  58. Untangling Lady Day dating and the Julian calendar
  59. And that's IIIF to you, too
  60. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": February 2019
  61. The Mapper and the Rambler
  62. Theatrical Bills and Receipts
  63. Folger collections in times of war
  64. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": January 2019

2018 60

  1. The Charming Mr. Stoker and the Monster Within
  2. The Journey is Underway for Before 'Farm to Table'
  3. The key to removing a card catalog rod (literally)
  4. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2018
  5. Spanish Book Collection at the Folger
  6. Coding Elizabeth’s Court: A Digital Experiment
  7. What is an Aesopian fable in the Renaissance? The case of the Renaissance Catwoman
  8. De Acupunctura: Willem ten Rhijne and Bringing Eastern Medicine to Europe
  9. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: November 2018
  10. Tracing the transmission of medical recipes
  11. Minding the Gaps of Early Modern Drama
  12. Hexed
  13. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: October 2018
  14. The mystery of the Shakespearian cartoons
  15. Experiments with early modern manuscripts and computer-aided transcription
  16. Happy 500th Birthday!
  17. About that frontispiece portrait of Hannah Woolley....
  18. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: September 2018
  19. Early Modern Digital Texts: a link roundup
  20. A "lost" drawing by Ellen Terry
  21. The Drury Lane printshop
  22. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: August 2018
  23. Under Cover: Forged Bindings on Display at the Folger
  24. Announcing a New Fellowship for Before "Farm to Table": Early Modern Foodways and Cultures
  25. Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture
  26. What is Lost is Found Again: the Lost Plays Database
  27. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": July 2018
  28. Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed
  29. A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643
  30. Engraved to Sell
  31. On looking into Chapman's Homer once again
  32. Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
  33. "What manner o’thing is your crocodile?": June 2018
  34. Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature, part II
  35. The IIIF Community Comes to Washington
  36. Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style
  37. Hinman, Redux
  38. Portia in Absentia
  39. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: May 2018
  40. Announcement: 2018-2019 Long-term Fellows
  41. The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook
  42. Sonnets by Shakespeare...'s spirit?
  43. Discovering Early Modern Digital Resources
  44. Drawing for photographic reproduction
  45. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2018
  46. Imagining an 18th century Jane Doe
  47. The Strange and Practical Beauty of Small-Format Herbals
  48. Of Counts and Causes: The Emergence of the London Bills of Mortality
  49. Cracks in Etched Plates
  50. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2018
  51. A New Acquisition: from the workshop of the Naval Binder?
  52. Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature
  53. Was early modern writing paper expensive?
  54. Announcing a New Folger-NACBS Short-Term Fellowship
  55. The Shakespeare stamps
  56. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2018
  57. Books of Offices
  58. Book Reviews from the Royal Society
  59. Bound to Serve: Apprenticeship Indentures at the Folger
  60. The Case Files

2017 61

  1. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": January 2018
  2. Twentieth-century illustration technique revealed in a "snow Globe"
  3. Folger Collections related to Dramatic Performance
  4. A Sophisticated Leaf
  5. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2017
  6. Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London
  7. Theatrical disturbances and actors behaving badly: what the Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal tells us about nineteenth-century theatrical life
  8. News, News, News
  9. Time writing
  10. Enter Miranda: the Folger's new digital platform
  11. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: November 2017
  12. Early modern legal violence: for the common good?
  13. Lost at Sea
  14. Report from the field: network analysis
  15. Dryden's Virgil, Ogilby's Virgil, and Aeneas's nose job
  16. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: October 2017
  17. In memoriam: Betsy Walsh
  18. A nineteenth-century family circus
  19. Consuming the New World
  20. "Whose least part crackt, the whole does fly": early views on Prince Rupert's Drops
  21. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: September 2017
  22. Black Monday: the Great Solar Eclipse of 1652
  23. A New Era: The Folger Now Uses Aeon!
  24. How to Make a Librarian Panic
  25. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: August 2017
  26. I learned to read Secretary Hand!!!! (And so can you)
  27. Shakespearian novelties- er, novelettes
  28. A Photographic Facsimile from 1857
  29. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: July 2017
  30. The Folger Institute Partners with the Shakespeare Association of America on a New Fellowship
  31. The EMMO Conference on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
  32. Imagining a lost set of commonplace books
  33. "What manner o’thing is your crocodile?": June 2017
  34. Happy Birthday, Elias Ashmole!
  35. How to catalog 100,000 playbills (give or take a few thousand)
  36. The Reformation at Folger
  37. New resources, old plays: expanding A Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama
  38. Okay, but what does it mean, or how do you regularize an early modern transcription?
  39. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": May 2017
  40. Announcement: 2017-2018 Long-Term Fellows
  41. New Vault Material Walks Into a Library...
  42. Pietro Mattioli and the Everlasting Woodblocks
  43. Sign Here Please: ______ Blank forms from the Folger Collection
  44. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2017
  45. Histories and Communities of Books
  46. The Guild of Women-Binders and the "bindings of tomorrow"
  47. From the Archives: Shakespeare in the USSR
  48. The Folger as a Collection of Collections
  49. A Yellow Book
  50. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2017
  51. A New ASECS-Folger Short Term Fellowship
  52. Manuscripts in libraries: catalog versus finding aid
  53. Announcing a New Fellowship with the Omohundro Institute
  54. A promptbook in disguise
  55. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2017
  56. Announcing EMMO's Beta Launch
  57. William Shakespeare, Poet and Gentleman
  58. Folger copy 54: From family library to research library
  59. Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
  60. Princely New Year's Gift? A Newly-Discovered Manuscript
  61. Looking through the hole in a torn-open letter

2016 60

  1. "What manner o’thing is your crocodile?": January 2017
  2. Thomas Nashe and the print shop: looking for clues in the archive
  3. The Mysterious Case of Folger First Folio 33
  4. Sophisticating the First Folio
  5. Scissors inside books?
  6. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: December 2016
  7. A Preview of What the New EMMO Website Will Offer
  8. "A triple badge in Coventry ribbon"
  9. Folger Tooltips: Making the most of Hamnet's "Keyword Anywhere" search box
  10. Spirit rapping and other things that go bump in the night
  11. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: November 2016
  12. Ben Jonson's Library
  13. The Other First Folio
  14. I have sent you a Privy Seal...
  15. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?": October 2016
  16. Faire Europe: Ortelius, Mercator, and the continents
  17. A Recipe’s Place is in the Classroom
  18. "To benefit the suffering Belgians"
  19. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: September 2016
  20. Uncut, unopened, untrimmed, uh-oh
  21. Introducing A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama
  22. Q & A: Amanda Herbert, Assistant Director for Fellowships Program, Folger Institute
  23. Honing transcriptions with algorithms and acumen
  24. Don Quixote on an Early Paper Cover
  25. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?” August 2016
  26. Shakespeare the player: a new discovery sheds light on two Folger manuscripts
  27. The Earliest Recorded Shakespeare in America?
  28. An unfinished gold-tooled binding
  29. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?" July 2016
  30. Music Manuscripts
  31. Investigating a Bull's Head Watermark
  32. A Pictorial Table of Contents
  33. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: June 2016
  34. What’s in a genre? Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies, and the Folger’s Digital Anthology
  35. Early Modern Edit-a-Thon
  36. Signature statements in book cataloging
  37. Physical description in book cataloging
  38. Unlocking An Early Modern Account Book
  39. Building a Replica of the John Wilkes Booth Diary
  40. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: May 2016
  41. In Defense of the Card Catalog
  42. How to plan a Shakespeare tercentenary
  43. Letter Scraps
  44. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: April 2016
  45. Musae Faciles; or, an Oxford Study Guide
  46. New STC call numbers for old
  47. Where is that book? Tracing copies imaged for EEBO
  48. A monument more lasting than bronze
  49. Fallen Type
  50. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: March 2016
  51. Textual variants in Shakespeare's love letter to Anne Hathaway
  52. Formal designs
  53. Chacolet
  54. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": February 2016
  55. The Amherst-Folger Fellows
  56. Documents, in microcosm
  57. Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 3: the manuscripts
  58. Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part 2: the printed material
  59. Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part I
  60. Photo-manual illustration

2015 61

  1. "What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?": January 2016
  2. Shakespeare Documented, coming soon
  3. EMMO announces the launch of Shakespeare's World
  4. The Secret History (of a publication)
  5. “What manner o’thing is your crocodile?” December 2015
  6. Two film studios, alike in dignity...
  7. “Extravagantly Large Paper”
  8. Doodles and Dragons
  9. Welcome to The Collation's new look
  10. Please pardon the dust
  11. What to do about the Macro manuscripts?
  12. Fall Round-up for Early Modern Manuscripts Online
  13. Shakespeare Land
  14. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: October 2015
  15. “Beloveed Plays”: A Sammelband of 1680s Quartos & Its Readers
  16. An Example of Printed Visual Marginalia
  17. Printers and authors in 1659
  18. Arithmetic is the Art of Computation
  19. "What manner o'thing is your crocodile?" September 2015
  20. Folger Tooltips: Making a spreadsheet from raw Hamnet data
  21. Libraries ǂx Special collections ǂv Blogs
  22. 'I Grapple him to my Soul with hooks of Steel'
  23. A Pin's Worth: Pins in Books
  24. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: August 2015
  25. Photostats, or, The more things change, the more they stay the same
  26. State Papers Online: tips and tricks, part 2
  27. Marginal calculations; or, how old is that book?
  28. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?” July 2015
  29. Publishing Against the King: French Civil War Pamphlets
  30. Tagging manuscripts: how much is too much?
  31. State Papers Online: tips and tricks, part 1
  32. The mystery of gridded paper
  33. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": June 2015
  34. A Renaissance best-seller of love and action
  35. Meet the Hamnet HBCN ("Handy Butt-Cover Note")
  36. "A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions
  37. Guten Tag! Como vai? Parlez-vous français?
  38. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
  39. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": May 2015
  40. How an 18th-century clergyman read his Folio
  41. Golden quills and paleography skills
  42. Correcting with cancel slips
  43. Folger files; or, a fetch-quest come to life
  44. Keeping your Jesus and Judas straight
  45. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?" April 2015
  46. Q & A: Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints
  47. Taming a tight binding
  48. "I see it feelingly": a raised-type King Lear
  49. Pi(e) day, represented
  50. Early modern eyebrow interpretation, or what it means to have a unibrow
  51. "This Play I Red" and other marginal notes on reading
  52. EMMO: advancing and expanding
  53. Knowing your Adams from your Adams: decoding library catalog citations
  54. Research round-up: February 2015
  55. Unwanted doodles in a Shakespeare quarto
  56. Another peek into the Conservation Lab
  57. Acquisitions Night: February 5, 2015
  58. A brief introduction to RDA
  59. An early modern color guide
  60. From comet tales to bear tails
  61. Twelfth Night

2014 61

  1. Out with the old? The A.L.A. Portrait Index of 1906
  2. Farewell to 2014
  3. Storming Shakespeare: creating an artists' book
  4. Hard hands and strange words
  5. A transcriba... what?
  6. Mezzotint!
  7. “What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2014
  8. How the "Mastiffs" reached the Folger
  9. So much for goats, or, cute creatures in coats of arms
  10. Research round-up
  11. Folger Tooltips: The limits of "Set Limits" in Hamnet
  12. Dalí as you like him
  13. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": November 2014
  14. Ohel or Dod? Ideal copies and messy print
  15. A carousel of tragedy
  16. 19th-century faces in a 16th-century manuscript
  17. Shorthand and snark: An unexpected journey through Virgil
  18. Finding women in the printing shop
  19. Folger Tooltips: New Hamnet URL and search limit
  20. When is an inscription not an inscription?
  21. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": October 2014
  22. What to eat after a long morning's work in the Star Chamber
  23. Q & A: Paul Dingman, EMMO Project Manager
  24. Surprised by Stanhope
  25. Folger Tooltips: Getting raw Hamnet data
  26. Constructing volvelles
  27. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": September 2014
  28. Pop Shakespeare's typography
  29. In memoriam: Nadia Seiler
  30. Free cultural works! Come get your free cultural works!
  31. Miracles lately vvrovght: the use of “vv” for “w” in 17th-century titles
  32. 10mo
  33. Something wiki this way comes, or, Welcome to Folgerpedia!
  34. Interiority and Jane Porter’s pocket diary
  35. Print or manuscript? Civilité type in early modern England
  36. So how do you find symbols in signature marks?
  37. The symbols of signature marks
  38. Identifying a leather bookplate
  39. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": July 2014
  40. William Dethick and the Shakespeare Grants of Arms
  41. An argent lion rampant: coats of arms in 17th-c. books
  42. Let's make a model!
  43. Fun in cataloging, or, the mysterious 12mo
  44. Hidden notes, "bibliographic nightmares," and STC call numbers
  45. Four states of Shakespeare: the Droeshout portrait
  46. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": June 2014
  47. Steady sellers
  48. Making a Karibari board
  49. Timon of Athens: nine not-actually-lost drawings by Wyndham Lewis
  50. A digital adieu
  51. Click-clack and crocodile tears: an annotated Elizabethan dictionary
  52. Abbreviations and signatures
  53. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": May 2014
  54. A peek into the Conservation Lab
  55. Continuing the celebration: Preserving birthday-related digital ephemera
  56. Cataloging questions: How should we display variant titles?
  57. Buzz or honey? Shakespeare's Beehive raises questions
  58. Waste not, want not
  59. A catchy Italian design
  60. Digital Stewardship: The one with all the definitions
  61. "What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": April 2014

2011 1

  1. The Collation by the numbers