Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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ca. 1570

Braye Lute Book: only contemporary setting of the music for Benedick's song in Much Ado About Nothing

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ca. 16th century

Thomas Dowse's manuscript note from Lucrece in Peter Idle's "Instructions to his son"

Two annotations written on the endpapers of a manuscript book may – or may not – be an early quotation of Shakespeare.