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====Highlights of the collection==== [[File:First Folio - Folger Shakespeare Library - DSC09660.JPG|thumb|The [[First Folio]] on display at the library's museum]] Significant items in the Folger's collection include: * The only extant complete copy of Shakespeare's ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'' first quarto, published in 1594 * The [[False Folio]] * The [[Macro Manuscript]], a unique source for the three early [[morality plays]]: ''[[The Castle of Perseverance]]'', ''[[Mankind (play)|Mankind]]'' and ''[[Wisdom (play)|Wisdom]]''. The manuscript also contains the earliest known staging diagram for any play in England. * The [[Dering Manuscript]], a single-play redaction of ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'' and ''[[Henry IV, Part 2]]'' that is the earliest known manuscript for any of Shakespeare's works. * The [[Ashbourne portrait]], the basis of several [[Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship|Oxfordian]] arguments * [[Henry VIII]]'s childhood copy of [[Cicero]]'s ''[[De officiis]]'', bearing an inscription in his hand, "Thys boke is myne Prynce Henry" * The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608, an oversized illustrated manuscript of 594 pages, depicting everything from the mundanities of daily life to biblical stories to contemporary political history * The earliest [[Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England#The Virgin Queen|''Sieve Portrait'']] of Queen [[Elizabeth I]] * Thirteen of [[John Donne]]'s letters detailing the personal crisis he faced upon marrying Anne More without her father's permission * Thousands of pages of letters to and from prolific 18th-century actor [[David Garrick]] * A large and significant collection of letters, mostly sent to the influential German Shakespeare scholar F. A. Leo (1820β1898), many of which related to the early history of the [[Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft|German Shakespeare Society]], as well as a selection of German-language documents relating to Shakespeare. This collection was organized and edited by [[Werner Habicht]].
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