The Rarest Signature

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Join me on my quest to find the rarest autographs in existence... • Narrated, Edited, Researched by Trey the Explainer • Music Score by Ryan Probert • Special Thanks to Professor Peter van Minnen and Cleopatra (aka my mom) • Chapters: • 0:00:00 Introduction • 0:04:55 Modern to Medieval Celebrities • 0:10:48 Hitting Autograph Bedrock • 0:13:41 Signature Literacy • 0:19:42 Kings and Emperors • 0:25:11 Make it happen! • 0:32:33 Crazy Horse • Additional Photos courtesy of • Wikimedia Commons: • Colonel Harland Sanders in character.jpg by Edgy01 • Dalai Lama Signierung.jpg by Ralf Standke/Fernweh-Park – Terra Film • Craig Gentry Autograph (39591936350).jpg by Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA • Theodosius II Louvre Ma1036.jpg by Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), 2009 • The Egypt Exploration Society • Citations • Bitar, A. (2023, March 3). The world’s most expensive autograph. Value My Stuff. https://www.valuemystuff.com/us/blog/... • Clarysse, W., Vandorpe, K. (2008) Information Technologies: Writing, Book Production, And The Role of Literacy. [Chapter 28 within The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World]. Oxford University Press. • de Semlyen, Nick (2013). The making of the X-files title sequence. Empire. https://www.empireonline.com/movies/f... • DJR Authentication. (2023, September 20). The illustrious value of William Shakespeare’s signature. https://www.djrauthentication.com/blo... • Fenton, J. (2006, July 29). James Fenton on Silent reading in antiquity. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/200... • Fletcher, R. A. (1989). The Quest for el Cid. Oxford University Press. • Hunt, A. S., Johnson, J. de M., Roberts, C. H. (1911). Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library (Vol. II). University Press. • Knipfing, J. R. (1923). The libelli of the Decian persecution. Harvard University Press. The Harvard Theological Review, Oct., 1923, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 345- 390 • Leemans, C. (1840). Description raisonnée des Monumens Égyptiens du Musée D’Antiquités des pays-bas À leide par le ... C. Leemans, directeur du musée . Hazenberg Klassik Stiftung Weimar. • Marshall III, J. M. (2004). The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota history. Viking. • Michaud, C. (2012, June 22). George Washington’s Constitution fetches record $9.8 million | reuters. Reuters.com. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bi... • Mueller, R. (2011, June 2). How does death really affect the value of an autograph?. Sports Collectors Daily. https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com... • Porten, B. (1996). The Elephantine Papyri In English. E.J. Brill. • Reece, S. (2017). Cleopatra Couldn’t Spell (And Neither Can We!). Ab Omni Parte Beatus: Classical Essays in Honor of James M. May (Mundelein: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2017) pp. 201-220. • Roller, D. W. (2012). Cleopatra: A biography. Oxford University Press. • Rutherford, A., Mukherjee, S. (2018). A brief history of everyone who ever lived: The human story retold through our genes. The Experiment. • Schiff, S. (2010). Cleopatra: A life. Little, Brown and Co. • Tallet, Pierre (2017). Les Papyrus De La Mer Rouge: Le Journal De Merer (Papyrus Jarf A et B) [The Red Sea Papyri: The Diary of Merer] (PDF) (in French, English, and Arabic). Vol. 1. Translated by Clement, Colin; Lotfallah, Soheir. ISBN 9782724707069. • Tallet, P., Lehner, M. (2022). The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri reveal the secrets of the Pyramids. Thames and Hudson. • Turner, E. G. (2015). Greek papyri: An introduction. Princeton University Press. • Tyldesley, J. (2011). Cleopatra: Last queen of Egypt. Profile. • Van Minnen, P. (2000). An Official Act of Cleopatra (With A Subscription In Her Own Hand). Peeters Publishers. Ancient Society, 2000, Vol. 30 (2000), pp. 29-34 • Van Minnen, P. (2024). Email Correspondence with Trey the Explainer.

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