Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

PART I. OF MARKS AND METHODS

1. Introduction: Used Books

2. image: Toward a History of the Manicule

3. Reading the Matriarchive

PART II. READING AND RELIGION

4. “The Book thus put in every vulgar hand”: Marking the Bible

5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer

PART III. REMARKABLE READERS

6. John Dee’s Columbian Encounter

7. Sir Julius Caesar’s Search Engine

PART IV. RENAISSANCE READERS AND MODERN COLLECTORS

8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers’ Marks

Afterword: The Future of Past Readers

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments