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 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 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 1, 2013
“a Sick Frend.”
From Letters to a Sick Friend: Containing Such Observations as May Render the Use of Remedies Effectual Towards the Removal of Sickness, and Preservation of Health by John Marlow (1682). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized April 8, 2010.
March 26, 2013
Marginalia.
Throughout Law, Or a Discourse Thereof: In Foure Bookes by Sir Henry Finch (1627). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 4, 2012.
March 25, 2013
Poem of notes: “8th Psalm / in Bible / O.T. / Secret Doctrine / (Tarot Keys) / Kabbala / Ezekiels Wheel “Ties to” / Revelation / Zodiac +”
From p. 14 of Light on the Path: A Treatise Written for the Personal Use of Those Who are Ignorant of the Eastern Wisdom and Who Desire to Enter Within Its Influence by Mabel Collins (1919). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
March 8, 2013
Arguments in the margin.
Throughout Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (1922). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 27, 2006.
March 5, 2013
Writing practice.
From the endpapers of The Pilgrim’s Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come by John Bunyan (1758). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 1, 2006.
February 26, 2013
Reader’s marginalia adopted by links.
From the contents of Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont (1921). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 27, 2008.
February 25, 2013
Reader comments on image—“Modesty!!”—and another reader questions the comment—”?”
From p. 26 of Poems by Samuel Rogers by Samuel Rogers (1816). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 12, 2008.
February 18, 2013
Readers comments on Pride and Prejudice include, “Oh god,” and “I knew it all along.”
Throughout Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1918). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 12, 2008.
February 11, 2013
Marginalia: “Cute but not very appropriate.”
From p. 89 of The Iron Heel by Jack London (1917). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 20, 2007.
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