Category Literary forensics
Contains an image and text of Edward de Vere’s last surviving letter, written to James I on January 30, 1603.
Dr. Heather Wolfe of the Folger Shakespeare Library contracts Tom Reedy, explaining that the seventh “Shakespeare signature” in a copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia is a forgery. Not, apparently, to the Oxfrauds.
Farnsworth weighs the evidence for and against the authenticity of the alleged Shakespeare “signature” on William Lambarde’s Archaionomia.
The Blog entry discusses the startling fact pattern of the de Vere Geneva Bible annotations: almost 2/3 of Shakespeare’s most commonly alluded to Bible references are marked or underlined in the book.
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on January 15, 2014 The featured image above shows the title page of the Folger V.a.230 copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia.The partially obscured, apparently Elizabethan annotation at the top of the leaf reads: “This book to… Continue Reading →
The blog entry examines and disproves the hypothesis that annotations in books from Sir Thomas Smith’s library are in the handwriting of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. They are, instead, in the handwriting of de Vere’s tutor, Sir Thomas Smith.