Incunabula: annotations index
Significant notes and/or textual annotations are indexed here. Many of the books contain brief bibliographical and ownership notes made by later owners (ie. 17th century onwards) - these are noted in the individual descriptions of the books but are not indexed here. Annotations that have been so washed out as to be illegible are mentioned in the individual records, but not indexed here.
Annotations have been grouped as follows:
- early ownership inscriptions
- textual/marginal/interlinear annotations (usually responses to the text)
- notes on flyleaves etc (not necessarily relating to the text)
- insertions (not necessarily relating to the text)
- mottoes and proverbs (not usually relating to the text)
- For readers' unprofessional drawings see: Decoration: drawings
Other Textual/marginal/interlinear annotations
Nota marks (including manicules) and/or underlining only [many of the books with annotations noted above also include underlining/nota marks]
167527; Ah-f.55; Al-b.17; Al-b.47; Al-b.48; Al-b.54; Al-c.8; An-y.4; An-y.40; Bc.2.23; BC12-y.17; BC14-a.1 (item 6); BC14-c.11 (item 1); BC33-d.8 (item 3); BC33-d.8 (item 8); BD7-f.8; BD9-a.4; BD9-b.6; BD9-c.4; Be.2.14; Be.3.13; Be.3.19; Bf.1.12; Bf.3.2; Bf.3.15 (item 2); Bg.2.20 (item 1); Bg.2.20 (item 2); Bg.2.21; Bg.2.23; Bg.2.28; Bg.2.31; Bg.3.10; Bh.1.2 (item 1); Bh.1.2 (item 2); Bh.2.11 (item 3); Bh.2.11 (item 4); Bh3-e.15; Bk5-g.22 (item 4); Bn6-d.3; Bn6-d.12 (item 1); Bv.2.7; Bv.2.16; Bv.2.20; Bv.3.4; Bw.2.22; Bw.3.17; Bx.2.6; Bx.2.15; Bx.3.8; Bx.3.19 (item 2); Bx.3.33; By.3.10; By.3.11 (item 1); By.3.11 (item 2); By.3.12; By.3.16; By.3.17; By.3.22; By.3.26 (item 1); By.3.36; By.3.39; By.3.41; E.c.38; Eg6-e.20 (item 4); RB 3058; Sp Coll 1881; S.M. 104; T.C.L. f12
Deleted/censored text
167506 (marginal annotation excised); 251612 (several lines scored through); BD7-e.13 (attempts at erasure); Be.2.7 (marginal annotations concealed beneath strips of pasted in paper); Bg.1.1 (woodcuts of St Thomas à Becket and accompanying text scored through in ink); Bg.2.13 (possible); Bg.2.25 (two sonnets lightly scored through); Bg.3.3; Bh.3.25; Bh8-e.1; Bk6-d.1; Bv.1.12 (word “papa” in the Tabula and in the text has been routinely crossed out and most woodcuts of popes have been defaced); Bv.2.14 (references to the Pope and Saint Thomas erased); Bv.2.17 (the title "Pope" deleted in black ink throughout); Bv.2.21 (references to the Pope and St James erased); Bw.3.18; Cn.1.2 (entry for "Pope" on m5v deleted); Cn.2.21 (item 1)
Doodles/scribbles
Ag-y.22; An-y.22; BD7-d.1; BD9-a.4; Be.3.25; Bg.1.1; Bh3-e.13 (item 1), Bh3-e.13 (item 2) & Bh3-e.13 (item 3); Bl1-d.11; Bl7-e.1; Bv.2.13; Bv.2.24; Bv.2.29; Bx.2.22; Bx.3.19 (item 3); By.1.1; Ea7-x.8 (item 2); Eg7-b.6