'onely a sigh broke prison'. I'm trying to chase off the midweek blues at @folgerlibrary.bsky.social #earlymodern #folgerfinds #manuscripts

Highly ornamented small table book (filigree metal work) with ribbon ties to the left and a stylus in its housing just visible top R

Image of a stylus used to write in a table book

Writing (faint) on the erasable surface of a table book

This is well known but just sharing some images of a table book: these were small, portable, erasable, used for jotting down notes at sermons or lectures. This one is very fancy but they turn up as standard purchases in #earlymodern account books #folgerfinds

Page from manuscript volume titled “Of the Misery of ye Naytion” 8 February 1658

Well, we’ve been here before…Anne Waller in Feb 1658 #FolgerFinds

Somebody got to look at the #Valladolid folio. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

#recusants
#censorship
#Shakespeare
#HolyOffice
#DiasporicBooks
#cutslikeaknife
#MeasureforMeasure
#KingLear
#FolgerFinds

In Part 1 of "All Fellowships are Connected," a C18 recipe for "Spanish Olio" attributed to George Keith, who also sent recipes to the Boswells: the Folger meets the Beinecke!

Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo.

#FolgerFinds
#cocido
#ollapodrida

Priced at 125 pesetas by a twentieth-century bookseller (Vindel?) and donated to the Folger by a German-born collector. No marginalia in Spanish yet!

#FolgerFinds
#Shakespeare
#EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain

.@FolgerResearch last week 😍 this silver filigree-covered "writing table" (read more abt here: https://bit.ly/2E7kXXc bc who wouldn't want to make a note abt that time you wrote w "pen made of an Eagle's Quill." #FolgerFinds

Last week was at glorious @FolgerLibrary reading fab examples of #genealogy fr #VastEarlyAmerica --but one of my best #FolgerFinds was that registering readers are asked for their @ORCID_Org ID!

En route to ⁦@FolgerLibrary⁩ for my own day of #folgerfinds! Gosh Union Station is gorgeous.

How cool is this?! Heather Kopelson, 1st @OIEAHC @FolgerResearch #vastearlyamerica research fellow presents on #folgerfinds

Some awesome #folgerfinds at the @GPP_Geo_III event this afternoon w @amandaeherbert Amy Froide & Nick Popper - thanks for turning out, friends!