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 15, 2013
Book clasps.
From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.
May 15, 2013
Endpapers, four different ways.
From Los Tres Libros de Matheo Maria Boyardo (1581). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized December 5, 2008.
May 14, 2013
Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.
From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.
May 14, 2013
Tissue with foxing partially covers illustration.
From p. 314 of The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 14, 2005.
May 14, 2013
Dog-ear.
From p. 294 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1912). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 27, 2007.
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
Pressed flower.
From p. 89 of The First Year of Greek by James Turney Allen (1917). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
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
Earthquake!
Throughout A Genuine Account of Earthquakes, Especially that at Oxford, in the Year 1695; and of Another Terrible One at Port-Royal, in Jamaica, in the Year 1692 (1750). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 11, 2009.
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
Bar code over marbled paper.
From the front matter of A Year on the Punjab Frontier, v. 1, by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1851). Original from the University of Lausanne. Digitized November 19, 2008.
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
Impossible places and creatures (illustrations left folded).
Throughout A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in 1758 by Rev. John Lindsay (1759). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 28, 2007.
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.
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