Today’s highlight from our Rare Books Collection is some charming marginalia from our copy&nbs
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! -- source link
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