Shakespeare-Owned Book Found?

A Canadian professor has discovered a Latin book of odes by Horace published in 1575 that he believes was owned by William Shakespeare. His belief is based on annotations once washed away but revealed again by imaging and reconstruction. There are numerous correspondences between passages with annotations and Shakespeare's borrowings. The potentially huge discovery, viewed with skepticism by some, is certain to be closely scrutinized by scholars before being full accepted. Here is a link to an article about the discovery.

Anyone want to start a Legacy Library?

>1 Podras.:
I'm skeptical. Of course there are parallels with S's works -- Horace would have been part of his schooling. And this guy is apparently arguing that the book belonged to the daughter of You-Know-Who, and she loaned it to "Shakespeare". Yeah...

>2 lilithcat:
Well, there are 2 or 3 or 4 books that have been claimed to have S's ownership signature, but no one is sure. If you mean books that he may have read or may have used as sources, well those are very big MAYS. And he may not have owned copies of the books he used, so are those in his "library"? Some have suggested that he read books from the shop of his fellow Stratfordian, the printer Richard Field, or from the library of one or more of his patrons -- Lord Strange, or one of the Lords Carey. But of course no one knows.

>3 Crypto-Willobie:

I was kidding!

>4 lilithcat:
I thought maybe...

The prof. has some explaining to do to justify the validity of his "imaging and reconstruction" method. Some of the skepticism is based on the Anne Oxford "signature". The folk at Oxfraud question whether she shouldn't have signed as Anne Vere. The letter "r" is formed differently than was common in either the secretary or italian scripts. The "discovery" is certainly intriguing, though. What if .... ?