Examples

Paratexts

Scratched-off Bookplate

Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park bookplate

Fold-out image

Hastings Library Backplate

Full page of Hastings Library Backplate

Hands

Below are examples of the various hands that have written, drawn, scribbled, and sketched in this copy of Acts and Monuments. Behind each of these annotations was a human being with their own life, their own ideas, and their own story. We will never be able to recapture all of that lost history but we have tried to record as much of it as possible.

Hand N: Pen Test

Hand N: two pages of scribbles

Hands A and B: Top

Hands A and B: Bottom

Hand A: Writing Practice

Hand A: Annotation to woodcut

Hand R: Rich

Hand R: Full page of Rich

Hand R: Richar

Hand R: Markings

Two pages of Richar and nondescript words with opposite page smudging

Triangle Stain

Hand L: Copying Numbers

Hand X: Marks

Dark penciled handwriting

Faded handwriting

from the Marquis of Hastings Library Annotation

Full page of from the Marquis of Hastings Library

Loving and kind friend; Hand C

Hand C: "Loving and kind friend," "thou + thee," and "William"

Hand C: William Crispin

Ink Smear

Two Pages with William Crispin annotation, smearing, and smudging

Full page of He died in his bed!

Hand P

Hand E

Hand D

Full page of cursive Latin script

Waves

Full page with waves in the corner