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By: Paul F. Gehl

Paul F. Gehl — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:59:38 +0000

Some important observations on annotation in school books may be found in Susan Forscher Weiss, ”Vandals, Students, or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks,” in Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Indiana University Press, 2010, pp.207-246, esp.213-236.

By: Paul F. Gehl

Paul F. Gehl — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:12:10 +0000

The brief discussion of annotation in this section is not intended to minimize the importance of such evidence for many kinds of book history, merely to suggest that there are particular cautions to be observed in the case of textbooks. The best synthetic study of marks in books, confined to English examples but useful methodologically for all, is William Sherman’s Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

By: Susan Barron

Susan Barron — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:55:02 +0000

Well, it does work as a single piece now, but it was clearly done by the different students who handled the book.

By: Paul F. Gehl

Paul F. Gehl — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:42:44 +0000

Susan: Your notes at 2.11 suggest that you are loving this piece as a composition by a single child reader covering a temptingly empty page. In fact there are at least three hands here, probably more. What shows up as a sort of smudge toward the top is probably the earliest mark, an ownership mark by a youth named Liberio. Most if not all the boxes contain an anagram poem, probably repeated by the same reader over and over. I would guess he is also responsible for the two roughly drawn penises, because the ink is very similar. The long, loose lines in greyish ink quoting a bit of doggerel in Italian, “Chi vuol saver…” are by yet another reader. And the marks in reddish brown ink –including a comic profile head– are surely yet another young owner. The all-over effect is, therefore, the result of accumulation, not the work of a single scribbler.

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figuring « YOU ENOCH — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:54:56 +0000

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By: Susan Barron

Susan Barron — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:19:19 +0000

very touching and beautiful piece of work