Underlining and annotation.
Throughout The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by H. H. Munro (1919). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 12, 2007.
August 21, 2012
June 24, 2012
Marginalia.
Throughout Indian Summer by William Dean Howells (1914). Original from Princeton University. Digitized November 27, 2008.
April 18, 2012
“If my Latin Professor found my textbook looking like this I would be in trouble. Some of the marginalia is obviously translations, but other parts are references to other lines.”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From De Vita Caesarum, v. 1-2, by Suetonius, with intro. and notes by John Howell Wescott and and Edwin Moore Rankin (1918). Original from the University of California. Digitized February 28, 2008.
March 1, 2012
Math worked through in the endpapers.
From College Algebra, v. 2, by Henry Lewis Rietz and Arthur Robert Crathorne (1919).
February 13, 2012
Copious marginalia.
Throughout Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. T. K. Abbott (1900).
October 8, 2011
![Marginalia, washed out by filter. Parts I can glean: “Hate is Sorrow,” “meaning of Hate is Anger,” “Anger is Prison,” “bounded by the soul,” “by pain,” and “sorrow waits.”
From p. 2 of The Sorry Tale: A Story of the Time of Christ, as told by the spirit of Patience Worth** to Mrs. John H. Curran, edited by Casper S. Yoth (1917). [Here]
**A ghost called “the invisible author,” which communicated “hundreds of poems, numerous parables and allegories, several short stories, a drama, and two novels,” through a Ouija board. More on Patience Worth and Pearl Lenore Curran here.
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Marginalia, washed out by filter. Parts I can glean: “Hate is Sorrow,” “meaning of Hate is Anger,” “Anger is Prison,” “bounded by the soul,” “by pain,” and “sorrow waits.”
From p. 2 of The Sorry Tale: A Story of the Time of Christ, as told by the spirit of Patience Worth** to Mrs. John H. Curran, edited by Casper S. Yoth (1917). [Here]
**A ghost called “the invisible author,” which communicated “hundreds of poems, numerous parables and allegories, several short stories, a drama, and two novels,” through a Ouija board. More on Patience Worth and Pearl Lenore Curran here.
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October 2, 2011
![Original marginalia and drawing reproduced in a facsimile copy of The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost, printed ~1496 by Wynkyn de Worde.
From the front matter of The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost, Cambridge of the University Press, 1907. [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsckvdjk5r1qixa76o1_400.png)
Original marginalia and drawing reproduced in a facsimile copy of The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost, printed ~1496 by Wynkyn de Worde.
From the front matter of The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost, Cambridge of the University Press, 1907. [Here]
September 23, 2011
Marginalia, in the truest sense; annotation in the margin.
From various pages of Sacrosancti et Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini (1557). [Here]
September 15, 2011
MSS notes: recipes and page numbers, arithmetic and animal rights (“To roast lobster alive / What infernal cruelty”).
From back matter of The Lady’s Companion: or, An Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex (1743). [Here]
September 8, 2011
![Contemporary cataloger’s title page note on authorship.
From title page of Young Scarron by Thomas Mozeen (1752). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6nwjQg7I1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Contemporary cataloger’s title page note on authorship.
From title page of Young Scarron by Thomas Mozeen (1752). [Here]
August 31, 2011
![Various names and signatures written/practiced in rear endpapers.
From back matter of History of the Rites, Customes and Manner of Life of the Present Jews by Leo Modena (tr. Edmund Chilmead, 1650). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqrvbyyHyY1qixa76o1_r1_400.png)
Various names and signatures written/practiced in rear endpapers.
From back matter of History of the Rites, Customes and Manner of Life of the Present Jews by Leo Modena (tr. Edmund Chilmead, 1650). [Here]
August 30, 2011
Copious inscription, notes, and marginalia.
Front endpapers and scattered within The White Man’s Grave: A Visit to Sierra Leone in 1834 by F. Harrison Rankin (1863). [Here]
August 18, 2011
![Arithmetic penciled in endpapers.
From back matter of American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (1841). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq3ny0Dw441qixa76o1_1280.png)
Arithmetic penciled in endpapers.
From back matter of American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (1841). [Here]
August 3, 2011
![Library call card, possibly used as bookmark, digitized obscuring text; also, marginalia in pencil
From p.29 of Sir Philip Sydney’s Defense of poetry: And observations on poetry and eloquence, from the Discoveries of Ben Jonson by Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson (1787). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpaw9qxX9g1qixa76o1_400.png)
Library call card, possibly used as bookmark, digitized obscuring text; also, marginalia in pencil
From p.29 of Sir Philip Sydney’s Defense of poetry: And observations on poetry and eloquence, from the Discoveries of Ben Jonson by Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson (1787). [Here]
August 3, 2011
![Extensive modern annotation; pink highlighter, underlining in blue and black ink, marginal notes (“science arranges elements of poetry”, “poetry awakens mind”, “poetry reproduces”).
From p.12-13 of A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1890). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpav7kcxUy1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Extensive modern annotation; pink highlighter, underlining in blue and black ink, marginal notes (“science arranges elements of poetry”, “poetry awakens mind”, “poetry reproduces”).
From p.12-13 of A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1890). [Here]
