Numbers and scribbles.
From the back matter of Discorso sopra il Principio di Tutti i Canti d’Orlando Furioso by Laura Terracina (1568). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized June 15, 2009.
May 15, 2013
May 14, 2013
Redacted addition.
From A Catalogue of the Genuine and Capital Collection of Pictures, by the Most Celebrated Masters, of that Late Great and Learned Physician, Doctor Richard Mead (1754). Original from Oxford University. Digitized January 28, 2009.
May 13, 2013
Throughout An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1657 by S. B. (1657). Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 9, 2011.
May 13, 2013
Underlining and annotation in red crayon.
Throughout A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa by Archibald Alexander (1846). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 25, 2007.
May 13, 2013
Copious notes.
From the front matter of A Voyage to Suratt by John Ovington (1696). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 5, 2010.
May 6, 2013
“I question this.”
From p. 185 of Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee by Thomas Edward Bowdich (1873). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 19, 2007.
May 5, 2013
Marginalia including phrases from an identification rhyme.
Throughout Vox Stellarum: or, A Loyal Almanac for the Year of Human Redemption (1777). Original from Princeton University. Digitized May 6, 2009.
April 22, 2013
Linked marginalia.
From the table of contents of Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert William Service (1916). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 24, 2007.
April 22, 2013
Arithmetic.
From p. 1 of The Cork Remembrancer by John Fitzgerald (1783). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 18, 2007.
April 13, 2013
![Marginalia: “Bright with this star’s reflected glow— / Brighter, since Christ too [dared?] to go!”
From p. 82 of Youth: And Other Poems by Charles Hanson Towne (1911). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 23, 2009.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/89593d025b4752ac2925340255fd0e98/tumblr_mkxwxqnANK1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Marginalia: “Bright with this star’s reflected glow— / Brighter, since Christ too [dared?] to go!”
From p. 82 of Youth: And Other Poems by Charles Hanson Towne (1911). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 23, 2009.
April 13, 2013
Working out some algebra in the endpapers.
From the back matter of The Boy’s Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of All the Diversions, Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative, of Boyhood and Youth by William Clarke (1829). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 31, 2007.
April 9, 2013
Handwritten labeling.
From p. 105 of New Complete Palmistry: Containing the Most Simple Presentations of the Science of Modern Palmistry, Including All of the Discoveries, Investigations and Researches of Centuries by Julius and Agnes Zancig (1905). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
April 8, 2013
Copious marginalia, including ”hallucination,” “phantom,” “to murder them,” “night journey,” and “task of man!”
Throughout Youth, and Two Other Stories by Joseph Conrad (1922). Original from Princeton University. Digitized December 5, 2008.
April 7, 2013
Censored lines.
From The Grotto by Peter Drake (1733). Original from Oxford University. Digitized June 13, 2008.
April 7, 2013
April 13th, 1PM
Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center
Part of The Poetry Center of Chicago’s annual reading series
Krissy Wilson, of The Art of Google Books, will read and discuss a suite of cento poems written using marginalia digitized by Google Books.
A discrete waypoint in our understanding of what the book might become, where it is (no longer) bound. Featuring poets and artists whose work concerns the past and future of literary forms, including recipients of the Envisioning the Future of the Book commission from the Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College. Interventions may include artists’ books, works between page and screen, poems made from Google Books marginalia, and Orlando re-written by the vibrations of an oak tree.
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