The blog entry contests the facile and mistaken argument that Edward de Vere is not the annotator of his own Bible, using photographic evidence of handwriting and underlining in two of the three major ink types in the Bible.
The blog responds to Professor Gabriel Egan in his review of my 2000 Notes and Queries article on the influence of the marginal notes of Samuel in Shakespeare.
The post considers the significance of one of the most striking of the de Vere Bible annotations, the annotator’s supplemental correction of the missing pronoun at Romans 7:20.
In coming weeks and months I hope to bring you many letters of Edward de Vere, of which well over 40 survive in various archive. Transcriptions of these letters are available on Nina Green’s archive, but nowhere on the web… Continue Reading →
Why the colorful underlining of Ezekiel 16.49 was a game-changer in the Shakespeare Authorship question.
Contains an image and text of Edward de Vere’s last surviving letter, written to James I on January 30, 1603.
The hunt’s on for the remnants of the Earl of Oxford’s widely-dispersed library. A recent and dramatic example is Ben August’s acquisition of the 1565 volume of Matheo Boiardo’s Italian translation of Herodotus’s Greek and Persian Wars. In this video,… Continue Reading →
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