The Mystery of the Silkworm: Conversations in the Reading Room and Beyond

Janice Neri; Danielle Skeehan

The Mystery of the Silkworm: Conversations in the Reading Room and Beyond

Janice Neri, Danielle Skeehan

Boise State University

Northeastern University

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Abstract

It was a classic tale of "who done it"—someone had violated the pages of a seventeenth-century atlas at the John Carter Brown Library, and in July 2012 two scholars set out to discover who that "who" was. The suspects had recorded—and illustrated—what appears to be a conversation about silkworms in the margins of a 1635 edition of Gerhard Mercator’s Atlas ; or, A geographicke description of the world . Upon further investigation it became clear that where one text ended, another began.

Original language	American English
Journal	I Found it at the JCB
State	Published - Aug 2012

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Literature in English, British Isles
Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

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