#annotations
Spotted in the stacks: this scavenger hunt in the pages of Wilson Library’s copy of The whole treatise of the cases of conscience, distingvished into three bookes (1632). At first, these reader annotations (by former owner William Gasker) seemed like a normal treasure hunt until I realized:
1) The hunt leads the reader in an infinite loop
2) The page numbers didn’t match up with the actual pages I turned through. Turns out, this was because the pages were bound out of order! (Page order was actually 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 97, 98, 99, 100, 109, 110, 111, 112, 105, 106, 107, 108, 113, 114, 115)
Not sure if this weird scavenger hunt is the annotator’s way of drawing attention to the misbound pages or if the scavenger hunt actually leads to a huge Da-Vinci Code-esque revelation if you use some sort of top secret cipher.
Intrigued? Come visit Wilson Library and solve the mystery yourself!
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Today’s highlight from our Rare Books Collection is some charming marginalia from our copy Der Statt Wormbs Reformation . From what we can tell, the annotator was trying to figure out the time that had passed between the first printing of this text and the year 1614. However, this owner slightly bungled both the original publication date (1499, not 1498) and the math (the difference should have been 116)!
Despite those few mishaps, though, this piece of marginalia is still a favorite of mine. Although the annotation is small, this subtraction makes a nice addition to the work of anyone studying reader-text interactions!
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I’m annotating ‘Call Me By Your Name’ by André Aciman after reading it twice and I got to the scene where Elio keeps changing the way he played the piece and making Oliver frustrated and it took ALL OF MY WILL POWER to not cover the whole scene in highlighter. It’s one of my favourite parts in the whole thing.
Extra Illustration
The early reader of this early German book of sermons clearly had some artistic talent…which absolutely cannot be said for many (most?) others.
Tauler, Johannes. Sermon Des Gross Gelarten in Gnade[n] Erlauchte[n] Doctoris Johannis Thauleri Predigerr Ordens… Durch Cunradum Kachelouen, 1498.
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More Sketchy Figures
Back by popular demand! More from our 1495 book of sermons by Johannes Tauler. These are some of the more…ahem…interestingsketches.
Tauler, Johannes. Sermon Des Gross Gelarten in Gnade[n] Erlauchte[n] Doctoris Johannis Thauleri Predigerr Ordens… Durch Cunradum Kachelouen, 1498.
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Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke(1706)
This collection of writings by notable Enlightenment philosopher John Locke contains a number of interesting (and fairly common) marks of use, in the hand of former owner John Shadwell.
Early books were not usually printed with indexes, so many owners added their own, often on one of the flyleaves at the front or back of the book. This volume features one such handwritten index—a list of subjects discussed in the first part of the work—alphabetized and with references to page numbers as in today’s printed books.
But no index is ever really exhaustive, and an owner’s decisions about what to include can reveal a lot about what he thought was important in the text. Creating an alphabetized index (even a short one like this) is also a time consuming affair, and requires a great deal of familiarity with the work. Such an index is a testament to the importance of this book to its previous owner.
Our former owner has also added a handwritten list of other works by the author (he was evidently a big John Locke fan), and started to define certain key concepts in the book—although he seems to have stopped after providing Locke’s definitions of “a miracle” and “a spectator.”
http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b1158883~S39a
~Andrew
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pride and prejudice book annotations <3
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i jokingly made her write me an apology email and then i annotated it
more pride and prejudice book annotations <3
the golden notebook - doris lessing
this year’s poetry class goes so hard. real knowledge about victorian poetry is gonna make me so much worse.
Trying out the annotation trend. Not half bad. Rereading Emma for the first time in a LONG TIME (think 2004). I forgot how much of a snob Emma is! #emma #janeausten #emmabyjaneausten #reading #read #bookstagram #annotatingbooks #annotations
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