Reader's marks, annotations, and traces across centuries
A page discovered in the archives on day 146 of the year...
"Bestiarum Vocabulum"
16th century · Annotated by a traveling naturalist
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│ ...Call me Ishmael... │
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│ ✱ ❧ ✗ │
│ ...and so the passage continues, with the │
│ reader's tiny compressed notes filling the margins... │
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│ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ "beloved" "no" "us" │
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│ [page 388] │
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"My grandmother pressed a violet here."
Between pages 388 and 389: a faded receipt from a bookshop
"Stolen from the library of"
— April 1912
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