Used Books : : Marking Readers in Renaissance England / / William H. Sherman.
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [t...
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Sherman, William H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Used Books : Marking Readers in Renaissance England / William H. Sherman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010] ©2008 1 online resource (288 p.) : 36 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Material Texts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I. Of Marks and Methods -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Used Books -- Chapter 2. Toward a History of the Manicule -- Chapter 3. Reading the Matriarchive -- Part II. Reading and Religion -- Chapter 4. ''The Book thus put in every vulgar hand'': Marking the Bible -- Chapter 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer -- Part III. Remarkable Readers -- Chapter 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter -- Chapter 7. Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine -- Part IV. Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors -- Chapter 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks -- Afterword. The Future of Past Readers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened by the marginal notes and comments." For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition.William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase "mark my words" quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives of their readers.Based on a survey of thousands of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. The chapters address the place of book-marking in schools and churches, the use of the "manicule" (the ubiquitous hand-with-pointing-finger symbol), the role played by women in information management, the extraordinary commonplace book used for nearly sixty years by Renaissance England's greatest lawyer-statesman, and the attitudes toward annotated books among collectors and librarians from the Middle Ages to the present.This wide-ranging, learned, and often surprising book will make the marks of Renaissance readers more visible and legible to scholars, collectors, and bibliophiles. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812220841 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203448 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203448 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812203448/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I. Of Marks and Methods -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Used Books -- Chapter 2. Toward a History of the Manicule -- Chapter 3. Reading the Matriarchive -- Part II. Reading and Religion -- Chapter 4. ''The Book thus put in every vulgar hand'': Marking the Bible -- Chapter 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer -- Part III. Remarkable Readers -- Chapter 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter -- Chapter 7. Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine -- Part IV. Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors -- Chapter 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks -- Afterword. The Future of Past Readers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I. Of Marks and Methods -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Used Books -- Chapter 2. Toward a History of the Manicule -- Chapter 3. Reading the Matriarchive -- Part II. Reading and Religion -- Chapter 4. ''The Book thus put in every vulgar hand'': Marking the Bible -- Chapter 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer -- Part III. Remarkable Readers -- Chapter 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter -- Chapter 7. Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine -- Part IV. Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors -- Chapter 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks -- Afterword. The Future of Past Readers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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