Month: April 2013
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Early Taishō Japanese Juvenile Pocket Fiction: Tatsukawa Bunko and its Imitators
[Ed. Note: Today’s post comes from Mike Williams, a Japanese Specialist here at the Penn Libraries] [Auth. Note: Due to bibliographic evidence and mild demand of researchers and interested parties, I have adjusted the romanization of the title from Tachikawa to Tatsukawa. Updated July 22, 2013.] For many years, a faded assortment of colorfully-bound but…
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Food for Thought
[Ed. Note: Today’s post comes from Alex Devine, a Ph.D. Candidate in Penn’s English Department] This is a story about merchants and menus in medieval England. Two manuscripts in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection at Penn, LJS 238, The Statute of Wynchestre, a record of the regulations for breadmaking in 16th-century England and LJS 61,…