Online facsimiles
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Items listed here can be viewed online, some
in their entirety, by following the links below. From a "Catalog
entry," follow the hyperlink in the "Linked
Resources" line.
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Digital Image Collections.
You can now search for digital images of items from Folger Shakespeare Library collections via download and installation of Luna Insight software, or via web browser access to Insight.
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Attributed to George Gower, ca. 1540-1596.
The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, 1579.
(Oil on panel, 104.4 x 76.2 cm).
Reproduction of oil painting.
Catalog
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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories,
& tragedies: published according to the true originall
copies. (London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and
Ed. Blount, 1623).
The First Folio, Folger copy no. 5: Digital edition
by Octavo, in PDF format.
[Please note: although these files may be slow to load,
the electronic edition should be accessible in full
through this link.]
Catalog
entry.
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Edmund Spenser, 1552?-1599.
The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning tvvelue Æglogues
proportionable to the twelue monethes. (At London
: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane
neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne,
and are there to be solde, 1579).
Reproductions of title page, colophon, and woodblock
illustrations of the twelve months.
Catalog
entry.
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Thomas Trevelyon, b. ca. 1548.
Commonplace book, 1608. (English manuscript).
MS V.b.232.
Reproductions of fifteen manuscript pages.
Catalog
entry.
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Finding aids
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Folger
Library Microfilms Database.
This database lists all microfilms
that have been made of Folger rare books, art, and manuscripts,
including those items that are unique or restricted.
Click past any "certificate errors," should you see any (typically in Internet Explorer). To order personal copies of microfilm, use these online
forms.
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Hand-List of Microfilm and Selected Microfiche Sets.
Updated in June 2008, this PDF lists major microfilm and microfiche sets owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Folger
Library online finding aids.
Guides to Folger manuscripts and other collections,
many previously available only in typescript, mounted
online using Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
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Finding
aid for Garrick playbills.
This "Guide to the Playbills in the Folger Shakespeare
Library Relating to the Theatrical Career of David Garrick,
1741-1776" offers pervasive access to playbills
in the Folger Shakespeare Library relating to the professional
career of David Garrick, as actor, manager, dramatist,
and man of the theatre.
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Selected Maps:
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On-site electronic resources
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The following subscription resources are available
only from Folger computers:
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Selected off-site links
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available from Folger computers as well as off-site. Lists
of additional links helpful to past participants in Folger
Institute seminars can be found here.
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Selected links to other libraries
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Questions, comments: hamnethelp@folger.edu.
Last updated: November 20, 2009.
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