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Article Dans Une Revue Etudes Epistémè : revue de littérature et de civilisation (XVIe - XVIIIe siècles) Année : 2015

More Mysteries about the Saint-Omer Folio: Nevill and other Marks of Ownership

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Since the discovery of a copy of a Shakespeare First Folio last November in the Saint-Omer public library, the scholars’ attention has focussed on the identity of the mysterious Nevill, whose name stares at any reader opening the book. His identification, it is assumed, must help date at least some of the annotations in the volume itself. The book, however, possesses other distinctive marks, possibly marks of ownership, which are perhaps less prominent at first sight. On nine occasions in the volume the letters P and S appear, hand-stamped in ink at the bottom of the page, either both on the same page, or on two consecutive pages. Hand-stamped initials or letters in books are highly unusual. The placement of the PS marks in the Folio is also odd, although a regular pattern seems to emerge, as we can show. The presence of the letters PS raises many questions. What could have driven anyone to want to mark a book at regular intervals? This short article offers a possible identification for Nevill and describes the marking, as well as other annotations in the Folio. It also offers some hypotheses to explain the presence of the marks.
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halshs-01155552 , version 1 (26-05-2015)

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Line Cottegnies, Gisèle Venet. More Mysteries about the Saint-Omer Folio: Nevill and other Marks of Ownership. Etudes Epistémè : revue de littérature et de civilisation (XVIe - XVIIIe siècles), 2015, Curiosité et Vanité dans les Iles britanniques, Etudes Epistémè (27), http://episteme.revues.org/472. ⟨halshs-01155552⟩
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