Shakespeare book found?

[Gary]

Came across this article and it brought back memories of this newsgroup
when it was in its prime many years ago.

Did the book belong to Will? What about the Earl of Oxford connection?
I'm guessing the authorship debate, wherever it takes place now, will
have fun with this one.

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Canadian professor believes a 16th-century book of works by Horace once
belonged to William Shakespeare

For Shakespeare historians, academics and aficionados, it is the Holy
Grail. People have searched high and low for any book that belonged to
the Bard for hundreds of years. It has been called the greatest mystery
in literature.

To write as he did, William Shakespeare must have owned books. Could
they have melted into thin air? Is the search for any extant volumes a
wild goose chase?

A Canadian professor believes he has made a momentous discovery on this
front. Robert Weir has spent more than four years researching the
provenance of a 16th-century book of works in Latin by the Roman poet
Horace. Using a method of reverse-referencing, followed by years of
research, Weir feels confident that it belonged to and was marked up by
the Bard. And he’s ready to make his findings public.

“This ... is ... the first known book from Shakespeare’s library, though
scholars have been seeking such a thing since the 1700s,” Weir says in a
paper delivered to the Classical Association of Canada, which is running
its annual conference online this week.

“Arguably, we’re talking about the most valuable book in the world,”
Weir told The Globe and Mail.


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-canadian-professor-says-he-has-determined-a-1575-book-of-horace-once/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Morning%20Update&utm_content=2021-5-26_7&utm_term=Morning%20Update:%20U.S.%20challenges%20Canada%e2%80%99s%20managed%20dairy%20supply%20under%20USMCA%20agreement&utm_campaign=newsletter&cu_id=t7%2BP3rI%2Bt%2FYx5Iui%2B6yRZxVYYZ6TE%2BGK

[Arthur Neuendorffer]

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The Faerie Queene Dedicatory Sonnets
http://www.bartleby.com/153/31.html

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Art Neuendorffer