LEADER 04662oam 22006975 450 001 9910819276603321 005 20220523110629.0 010 $a1-283-21206-4 010 $a9786613212061 010 $a0-8122-0344-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203448 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050842 035 $a(OCoLC)759158172 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491890 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565638 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11367215 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565638 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10545314 035 $a(PQKB)11613255 035 $a(OCoLC)794702150 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3151 035 $a(DE-B1597)449199 035 $a(OCoLC)979779006 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203448 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441433 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050842 100 $a20190708d2010 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUsed books $emarking readers in Renaissance England /$fWilliam H. Sherman 205 $a1st paperback ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2010] 210 4$d©2008 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial Texts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2084-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [232]-249) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tPart I. Of Marks and Methods --$tChapter 1. Introduction: Used Books --$tChapter 2. Toward a History of the Manicule --$tChapter 3. Reading the Matriarchive --$tPart II. Reading and Religion --$tChapter 4. ''The Book thus put in every vulgar hand'': Marking the Bible --$tChapter 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer --$tPart III. Remarkable Readers --$tChapter 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter --$tChapter 7. Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine --$tPart IV. Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors --$tChapter 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks --$tAfterword. The Future of Past Readers --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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 606 $aRenaixement$zAnglaterra 606 $aNotes marginals$zAnglaterra$xHistòria$yS. XVI$2lemac 606 $aLlibres i lectura$zAnglaterra$xHistòria$yS. XVI$2lemac 608 $aLlibres electrònics 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 04$aRenaixement 615 07$aNotes marginals$xHistòria 615 07$aLlibres i lectura$xHistòria 676 $a028.9094209031 700 $aSherman$b William H.$0242639 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819276603321 996 $aUsed books$94077356 997 $aUNINA