Distortion.
From p. 57 of Compendium Privilegiorum Fratrum Minorum by Alonso de Casarubios (1532). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 22, 2008.
April 15, 2013
April 1, 2013
Distortion. Submitted by asfaltics: “Recto pages awry. Delightful chapter, as odd as its scan, concluding “We have rode on Buffalo Bill, Grant, Abraham, Mahomet and Solomon.”
Throughout Rambles of a Southerner in Three Continents by P. L. Groome (1889). Original from Princeton University. Digitized April 7, 2009.
February 13, 2013
Severe distortion.
From The ABC: or, Alphabetical Railway Guide, v. 88-99 (1861). Original from Oxford University. Digitized January 25, 2007.
January 24, 2013
Uncropped; distorted.
Throughout The Army Ration: How to Diminish Its Weight and Bulk, Secure Economy in Its Administration, Avoid Waste, and Increase the Comfort, Efficiency, and Mobility of Troops by Eben Norton Horsford (1864). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 7, 2005.
November 27, 2012
Distorted text.
Throughout English Dialect Society, v. XVII: The Dialect of West Somerset by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1875). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
November 5, 2012
Distortion.
Throughout A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot by David Jardine (1857). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 3, 2009.
October 25, 2012
Distortion of rear cover.
From the back matter of The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law by Adolphe Theirs and Francis Skinner Fiske (1859). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 17, 2008.
September 5, 2012
Taffy-pull distortion.
From the front matter of The History Of The Troubles And Tryal Of The Most Reverend Father in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, v. 2, by William Laud, Henry Wharton, and Edmund Wharton (1700). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized April 19, 2012.
September 5, 2012
Severe distortion.
From Enguerran de Monstrellet, Ensuyvant Froissart, Nagueres Imprime a Paris des Cronicques de France, Dangleterre, Descoce, Despaigne, de Bretaigne, de Gascongne, de Flandres, et Lieux Circonvoisins by Enguerrand De Monstrelet, Jean de Roye, and Pierre Desrey (1512). Original from Ghent University. Digitized April 4, 2011.
June 4, 2012
Distorted circulation slip.
From the back matter of The Hair by Charles H. Leonard (1879). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
May 14, 2012
“This image is from the book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1972) by Daphne Oram. I found the file at Monoskop, a fantastic archive of writings on art, culture and media technology.”
Submitted by an anonymous finder.
April 20, 2012
“The last 200 pages or so are unable to be read due a lot of movement.”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout United States Catalog: Supplement by the H. W. Wilson Company (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 13, 2010.
April 9, 2012
“Poor scanning renders the page completely illegible and results in a kind of chaotic textual whirlpool.”
Submitted by Chris Hawley, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 12 and 13 (?) of Rules of Poker (1882). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 2, 2006.
February 2, 2012
December 26, 2011
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