Sherman 2008 - Revision history

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	use value vs. exchange value (177); rare books became commodity "through the emptying out of its objectness in the naem of abstract exchange." -- fetishism -- "obscures and even effaces the world of work bound up with their creation and employment" -- Sherman wants to show "the ways in which used texts (when handled sensitively and observed closely) have the power to remind us of their social lives -- lived, like secondhand clothes, at the intersection of 'history, memory, and desire'" (178)		use value vs. exchange value (177); rare books became commodity "through the emptying out of its objectness in the naem of abstract exchange." -- fetishism -- "obscures and even effaces the world of work bound up with their creation and employment" -- Sherman wants to show "the ways in which used texts (when handled sensitively and observed closely) have the power to remind us of their social lives -- lived, like secondhand clothes, at the intersection of 'history, memory, and desire'" (178)

			== Afterword ==

			"simply put, the digital tools being developed for her have, as yet, paid very little attention to readers. Databases and facsimiles ... are primarily concerned with giving us access to accurate and attractive informational content and with helping us to make our way around it (a goal generally knwon, in the computer and information sciences, as 'usability'). Their emphasis on 'interactivity' nowithstanding, they have not yet imagined us doing much with or to books beyond turning their pages and have not yet found ways to preserve our marks -- much less to improve them or to educate us about the markings of those who turned pages before us." (182)

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			:"When books are communal property -- as in public libraries or educational institutions, where volumes circulate from raeder to reader -- writing in their margins is considered antisocial behavior, at best a breach of decorum and at worst a breach of law." (156)

			:"the cult of the clean book is strongly associated with the growth of institutional libraries. ... Lending libraries undoubtedly helped to spread literacy and learning to new groups of readers, and in turning marginalia from a tool to a transgression they also deprived those readers of one of their most powerful methods for conversing with authors and other readers." (157)

			people who don't "use" books but keep them pristine are singled out in ''The Ship of Fools'' (159-60)

			use value vs. exchange value (177); rare books became commodity "through the emptying out of its objectness in the naem of abstract exchange." -- fetishism -- "obscures and even effaces the world of work bound up with their creation and employment" -- Sherman wants to show "the ways in which used texts (when handled sensitively and observed closely) have the power to remind us of their social lives -- lived, like secondhand clothes, at the intersection of 'history, memory, and desire'" (178)

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	== John Dee's Columbian Encounter ==		== John Dee's Columbian Encounter ==

			:"One of the most consistent features of Dee's marginalia as a whole is their attention to the conditions of textual production and reception." (119) -- notes authorship, ownership, use of texts

			traces of Dee's marginal conversations with Columb "are more trivial and tedious than uncannily ful of the will to be heard. They are bound to strike us as less compelling than the dramatic stories of exploration, piracy, and colonization ... [and they] lack, for the most part, the psychological and creative intensity that modern readers have come to look for in engagements with texts.
			" (126)

	== Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine ==		== Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine ==

	== Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks ==		== Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks ==

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	''leaf books''' -- collectors editions on early printed books, accompanied by cut leaf from the original (105)		''leaf books'' -- collectors editions on early printed books, accompanied by cut leaf from the original (105)

			problems of exceptional evidence; this book is "stubbornly transitional, almost uncannily in-between: it takes us across the traditional divide between script and print but also into a number of other early Elizabethan middle grounds" (108) (professional/amateur, production/consumption, public/private, Catholic/Protestant, medieval/Renaissance)

			Carlo Ginzburg and Carlo Poni and marginal cases

	== John Dee's Columbian Encounter ==		== John Dee's Columbian Encounter ==

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	"hybrid confections" of manuscript and print (Sandra Hindman)		"hybrid confections" of manuscript and print (Sandra Hindman)

			books being cut up and destroyed, used as bookbinding materials, during the Reformation (102); could the initials have come from these books? if so, interesting that books burned for their Catholicism are remixed into manuscript book of common prayer

			:"the sue of scissor and paste was by no means inherently sacrilegious in the c16. It played a more central role in Tudor and Stuart textual culture than we have tended to realized, and is in fact part of a very long tradition of cutting and pasting with the best and even holiest of intentions" (103)
			* Mary Erler, "Pasted-in Embellishments in English Manuscripts and Printed Books, c. 1480-1533"
			* Ursula Weekes, ''Early Engravers and their Public' -- suggests cutting/pasting as devotional work of women in religious communities
			* Little Gidding citation

			''leaf books''' -- collectors editions on early printed books, accompanied by cut leaf from the original (105)

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			manuscript book of common prayer, made ~ 1560s

			woodcut initials from printed books added in

			:"There are useful reminders of the fact that many books outlived the contexts for which they were originally produced, remaining meaningful and/or useful to readers who were willing to update them." (92) -- ''remixing historical past / residual media to meet current media ecology''

			"hybrid confections" of manuscript and print (Sandra Hindman)

	== John Dee's Columbian Encounter ==		== John Dee's Columbian Encounter ==

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Marking the Bible

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	* dating		* dating

			pious vs. impious marks -- Bible put in every "vulgar hand," now used less delicately (83-4)

	== An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer ==		== An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer ==

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	== Marking the Bible ==		== Marking the Bible ==

			early literacy meant ''reading the bible'' (72)

			expected to find the Holy Book less marked than others; but incidence of marginalia "turns out to be almost identical" to that of the whole STC collection at Huntington

			"How to take profite by reading of the holy Scriptures," published in many editions of the Geneva Bible (73)

			:"Signatures and other ownership notes are, predictably, the most common inscriptions and were one of the principal ways of not simply signaling that the Scriptures had become personal property but of placing the book in space and time -- and using the book, indeed, to mark one's own place in history, particularly after books had passed through multiple households or descended through multiple generations in a single family" (76)

			not unusual to find variant versions / alternative translations copied in margins (79)

			vogue for putting bibles in embroidered bindings in Tutor and Stuart England (80); "the function of these bindings is more than merely decorative. They are one of the places where we can see the persistence of religious images after Protestant scripturalism and iconoclasm have taken root in England, largely supplanting the image with the word and effectively banishing illustrations from the texts of Bibles and prayer books" (80)

			categories of readers' marks in printed Bibles in first 100 yrs after break with Rome:
			* ownership notes
			* penmanship exercise
			* cross-references
			* liturgical instructions
			* numbers of pages, chapters, verses
			* corrections
			* polemical notes
			* dating

	== An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer ==		== An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer ==

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	"strong sense in which the book is serving as an official place for individual readers or groups of readers to take stock -- of their families, their beliefs, their belongings, and their textual resources" (61)		"strong sense in which the book is serving as an official place for individual readers or groups of readers to take stock -- of their families, their beliefs, their belongings, and their textual resources" (61)

			Lady Anne Clifford; adorning her house with sayings (65)

	== Marking the Bible ==		== Marking the Bible ==