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# Archaeology of Reading

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## Posts

- [Virtual Office Hours](https://archaeologyofreading.org/virtual-office-hours/) - This past week, several of the archaeologists partnered up with the Bibliographical Society of America to offer a webinar on the uses of AOR for remote teaching and research. Many thanks to Erin Schreiner for including us in the series, as well as for pulling together a wonderful list of digital resources available for use
- [School's In Session](https://archaeologyofreading.org/schools-in-session/) - As the new academic year comes rolling in, we're ready to hit the books again. We've added a few new elements to the site that we hope you'll find useful. Our pedagogy pages are up and running. On them, you'll find exercises aimed at a range of users and applications, from undergraduate and graduate seminars
- ['Pro se quisque'](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pro-se-quisque/) - Transcribing all of Harvey’s annotations is not always an easy—let alone enjoyable—task, mainly because of his obsession for detail, as a result of which some transcriptions seem to be never-ending—or at least it surely feels like that. However, precisely because of this level of detail, when transcribing one sometimes encounters particular annotations that are likely
- [Looking Back, Looking Forward](https://archaeologyofreading.org/looking-back-looking-forward/) - It’s been a busy few weeks here at AOR as we look to finalize the content of our website, and it’s hard to believe that our London symposium took place over a month ago! It was encouraging to see so many old and new faces in Senate House for our symposium, and to hear the
- [Down to the Detail of Dee’s Greek Marginalia](https://archaeologyofreading.org/down-to-the-detail-of-dees-greek-marginalia/) - Happy New Year from the AOR team! In order to start 2019 and the last month of AOR with a bang, here's the blog written by our research assistant and newly-minted doctor Juan Avecedo! I have spent some weeks transcribing Dee’s Greek marginalia in the AOR corpus, which includes mostly topical notes, a few citations
- [The Updated AOR Viewer is Now Live](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-viewer-now-live/) - Happy Fri-Dee, everyone. After much transcribing, tinkering, and typing, we’re happy to unveil the fully-updated Archaeology of Reading viewer! We hope it provides a functional and sharp facelift to the Gabriel Harvey books, which are now joined by the 23 volumes annotated by John Dee. Now you can finally see what we’ve been blogging about
- [The challenge of ... page numbers](https://archaeologyofreading.org/the-challenge-of-page-numbers/) - We have arrived in the last months of AOR, which is scheduled to come to an end in late January. This means that we are busy with getting the next version of our digital research environment ready. Part of the remaining work is very exciting and comprises the creation of a set of contextual documents
- [Project Update: John Dee Meets Albert Einstein](https://archaeologyofreading.org/project-update-john-dee-meets-albert-einstein/) - Two weeks ago, a good portion of the AOR Humanities team convened at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for one final meeting before we all meet in London to celebrate the end of the project! Unlike March’s meeting on Dee and his books, the only complications getting all of us in the room
- [Annotated Books at UCLA: Wider Applications of the AoR Schema](https://archaeologyofreading.org/annotated-books-at-ucla-wider-applications-of-the-aor-schema/) - This guest entry comes from Philip Palmer, Head of Research Services at the Clark Library at UCLA. Philip writes about his experience using the AOR schema to encode transcriptions of annotated books held at UCLA In July of 2014 I started a CLIR postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Clark Library on the subject of “Manuscript Annotations
- [John Dee's IDs](https://archaeologyofreading.org/john-dees-ids/) - A small but significant subset of the annotations in Dee's books include his initials, which begs the question "why would he 'authorize' these annotations?" This post explores connections among, and outside of, the books in the AoR corpus.
- [Defying interpretation? Topical marginalia and the history of reading](https://archaeologyofreading.org/defying-interpretation-topical-marginalia-and-the-history-of-reading/) - At the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in New Orleans, I planned to speak about the difficulties in writing a more general history of historical reading practices and offer several possible solutions. More specifically, I wanted to explore various strategies which can be employed in order to examine similarities and
- [Digitization and its discontents](https://archaeologyofreading.org/digitization-and-its-discontents/) - In an earlier blog, Matt Symonds discussed some losses which are inevitably part of the process of digitization. The material aspects of books in particular – their size, weight, feel and, indeed, smell – are difficult or impossible to convey on a screen. Consider, for example, the title pages of Livy’s History of Rome and
- [Dee's Mistakes](https://archaeologyofreading.org/dees-mistakes/) - How did John Dee make sense of what he was reading, and is it in any way similar to the ways we try to make sense of his notes?
- [Extending the Archaeology of Reading to study Hamlet](https://archaeologyofreading.org/extending-the-archaeology-of-reading-to-study-hamlet/) - In a previous blog entry, we talked about how Chris Geekie taught a class studying an annotated Hamlet prompt book from 1676, where the students would study the prompt book in a similar way to how Gabriel Harvey's marginal annotations were studied in the AOR project. This summer course, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
- [The Archaeology of Reading Hamlet](https://archaeologyofreading.org/the-archaeology-of-reading-hamlet/) - This past summer I had the opportunity to use the Archaeology of Reading to help teach a course for a group of community college students visiting Johns Hopkins. This course was part of a national, Mellon-funded initiative to bring together community colleges with research institutions such as Hopkins in order to introduce students to high
- [The AOR2 Transcriber's Manual is now available online!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/the-aor2-transcribers-manual-now-available-online/) - At the very beginning of the first phase of AOR (2014-2016), I started working on what would become the Transcriber’s Manual. Initially this document was intended to provide the research assistants with an overview of all the reader’s interventions thus far encountered and with guidelines for capturing these interventions in XML. Back then, the AOR
- [Dee and his books](https://archaeologyofreading.org/dee-and-his-books/) - Summer or not, we are slaving away at the CELL office in order to transcribe all the annotations contained in the books which are part of our Dee corpus! This blog post, by Finn Schulze-Feldmann, one of the three research assistants involved in phase 2 of AOR, reflects on Dee's different annotation styles. --- When
- [Dee’s Historical Comparisons & the Mystery of ‘Liber Gallicus’](https://archaeologyofreading.org/dees-historical-comparisons-the-mystery-of-liber-gallicus/) - This blog is written by Daisy Owens, one of the three Research Assistants working on AOR. ------------------ John Dee frequently refers to other books within his own collection in his marginal annotations, and by tracing these external references we can attempt to build up a picture of both how Dee read the books in his
- [John Dee’s Astronomicon and the Thirty-Six Decans](https://archaeologyofreading.org/john-dees-astronomicon-and-the-thirty-six-decans/) - This blog post is written by another research assistant, Matt Beros. Matt is currently working on the first volume of Cicero's Opera after just having finished transcribing Quintilian's Institutionum oratoriarum! --------- In this post I will be briefly looking at some of John Dee’s astrological marginalia in UCL’s copy of Firmicus Maternus’ Astronomicon Libri VIII
- [AOR on tour II: scholarly tourism in Poland](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-on-tour-ii-scholarly-tourism-in-poland/) - I have always been a big fan of the Dutch expression ‘het nuttige met het aangename verenigen’, that is, to combine or unite the useful with the pleasant (in Dutch - a superior and more elegant language ;) - it sounds far less clunky). Recently several members of the AOR team spent a perfect week
- [AOR on tour](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-on-tour/) - As the conference season has started in earnest, various members of the AOR team have travelled across the globe in order to preach the AOR-gospel. Here are some updates on the various conferences at which we presented! RSA 2017 As part of a now firmly established ritual, several members of the AOR team (Chris, Earle,
- [Talking data](https://archaeologyofreading.org/talking-data/) - Over the last decade or so, it has become commonplace to talk about data sets in relation to humanistic research. Whereas data sets seemed to be intrinsically linked to and part of the natural sciences, humanists of various plumage now regularly create their own. Increasingly, humanities data sets do not only contain quantitative data, such
- [Beta testing results: part II](https://archaeologyofreading.org/beta-testing-results-part-ii/) - In an earlier blog post, Cynthia York addressed and summarised the invaluable comments we received from the 34 beta testers who willingly devoted some of their precious time to play around with the AOR1 viewer and answer a number of questions we had formulated. These questions covered various aspects of the viewer, including its functionalities
- [John Dee’s annotated books at the Royal College of Physicians, London](https://archaeologyofreading.org/john-dees-annotated-books-at-the-royal-college-of-physicians-london/) - The AOR team is proud to announce that several colleagues and friends have agreed to write guests blogs for the AOR-website. This is the first of these guests blogs, written by Katie Birkwood, rare books and special collection librarian at the Royal College of Physicians! The library of the Royal College of Physicians, London (RCP)
- [AOR Launch in Baltimore](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-launch-in-baltimore/) - In late November 2016 the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe hosted and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute co-sponsored at Johns Hopkins University campus-wide rollout of AOR, drawing a large group of faculty, graduate students, librarians, and members of the AOR team, in particular several interesting questions from the audience on infrastructure
- [AOR launch in London](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-launch/) - Last Thursday (13.10.2016) the UCL Common Ground provided the stage for our workshop in celebration of AOR going live earlier this autumn (see the previous blogpost). Posters and postcards had been circulating, and with clear results: the afternoon was very well attended. A panel of AOR-anciens gave four concise, evocative presentations, intermitted with Q&A sessions.
- [AOR has gone live!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-has-gone-live/) - As you might have noticed, this week our site was updated to version 2 as AOR has gone live! This update does not only include some cosmetic changes to our site, such as the button which takes you straight to the AOR viewer, but also comprises several documents, such as a short biography of Harvey,
- [Beta testing the AOR viewer – user feedback](https://archaeologyofreading.org/beta-testing-the-aor-viewer-user-feedback/) - Overview of Testing Over the span of four weeks (June 28–July 31, 2016), beta testers were invited to provide feedback on their experience with viewing and manipulating digital surrogates of the 13 books within the Archaeology of Reading corpus using an optimized version of the Mirador image viewer for this purpose at http://bookwheel.org/demo. This blog
- [Search!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/search/) - Creating a data set is nice, making it publicly available is even nicer, but it is even nicer still if the data can be “interrogated” in various ways. To make this possible, the development of a robust search facility is necessary. When we started the project, the possibilities for search within IIIF and IIIF-compliant viewers
- [Diaspora / rhyme](https://archaeologyofreading.org/diasporarhyme/) - For the past few days, I have gone down the rabbit hole of worldwide library catalogues in order to actualise the status quaestionis of Gabriel Harvey’s library. The last cohesive attempt dates back to Virginia Stern’s book Gabriel Harvey: his life, marginalia and library from 1979. But books are nomadic objects. Like so many early
- [Swedes, Lawyers, and Pi](https://archaeologyofreading.org/swedes-lawyers-and-pi/) - Today I’d like to look at one of the especially tricky problems in transcribing Harvey, a symbol that has appeared twice so far in our corpus. It looks something like the letter Greek pi with a wavy line above it. The first text that contains this symbol is Thomas Freigius' Paratitla seu synopsis pandectarum iuris civilis (printed
- [Harvey reading verse](https://archaeologyofreading.org/harvey-reading-verse/) - As mentioned earlier, the latest edition to the Harvey corpus is Thomas Tusser’s Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie (London, 1580), recently acquired by Princeton University Library. The book is different from the other books in the corpus in terms of its topic —husbandry, the management or political economy of the household— but also in
- [Launching the viewer: RSA 2016 & Open Beta!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/launching-the-viewer-rsa-2016-open-beta/) - Ever since the start of AOR in September 2014, RSA 2016 in Boston had been firmly in the back of our minds and highlighted in our agendas (our PI Earle Havens made it a habit to remind us about this deadline wherever and whenever he could), as this was the time and place where we
- [Sensation in the margins](https://archaeologyofreading.org/sensation-in-the-margins/) - Here's the first blog post of our great new research assistant, Kristof Smeyers! Since arriving at CELL, Kristof has been working on Frontinus' Strategemes and the latest addition to the AOR corpus, Tusser's Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie, which has been recently acquired by Princeton University Libraries. Steve Ferguson, one of the driving forces
- [Some notes on translating Harvey](https://archaeologyofreading.org/some-notes-on-translating-harvey/) - Happy 2016 from the Archaeology of Reading! This week we are getting back into the swing of things, and to celebrate the new year I thought I’d write another short post about the challenging (though fun) world of translating Harvey’s marginalia. Today, we’re going to look at two terms that I’ve run across several times
- [AOR on tour: IIIF workshop (Ghent) & CNI fall meeting (Washington, D.C.)](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-on-tour-iiif-workshop-ghent-cni-fall-meeting-washington-d-c/) - In the last blog of 2015 I’ll give a short update on the conferences several of our “archaeologists” recently attended. Reflecting the various strands of the project, the AOR team consists of scholars, computer engineers, and librarians, and as a result a wide variety of conferences are part of our dissemination activities. Last week, on
- [Linking marginalia](https://archaeologyofreading.org/linking-marginalia/) - Albeit with a heavy heart, due to the loss of Lisa, our director, dear friend, mentor, and source of inspiration, we’ve continuously worked on AOR. We feel it’s important to try to carry on Lisa’s legacy, which can be done partly by making AOR, a project she was so excited about and that got off
- [Marginalia > space](https://archaeologyofreading.org/marginalia-space/) - For as assiduous an annotator as Gabriel Harvey, few things would have been as annoying as running out of white space. Indeed, he often used every inch of white space available, as this image shows: It also becomes clear that, even with sufficient space, Harvey still needed to take the layout of the printed text
- [Amanda's goodbye to Harvey!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/a-goodbye-to-harvey/) - Unbelievably, I’m coming to the end of my term on the Archaeology of Reading Project, time really has flown by! Whether through writing up transcriptions or checking them, I’ve been very lucky in having encountered quite a few of the books from the corpus we are using, including the Livy, Olaus, Domenichi, and Melancthon texts.
- [On Readers and Repetition](https://archaeologyofreading.org/on-readers-and-repetition/) - The complexity and density of the marginalia found throughout the Domenichi/Guicciardini volume makes it difficult to describe—let alone categorize—Harvey's peculiar manner of annotation. As I mentioned in an earlier post, he doesn't seem particularly interested in responding to the printed text. Originally, I referred to Harvey’s practice in this instance as that of writing a
- [Pages on a screen](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pages-on-a-screen/) - My name is Matt Symonds and I’m one of the researchers on the Archaeology of Reading team. I’m a historian specializing in early modern print culture and was recently interviewed by an MA student here at UCL on the topic of digitizing books. Here’s my executive summary: It’s great! It’s not so great. When I
- [Poets, popes, and polemics; or, methods for dating marginalia](https://archaeologyofreading.org/poets-popes-polemics/) - One of the more fascinating aspects of working with the tangle of marginalia found in Domenichi’s Facetie, motti, et burle is the constant reminder that Harvey returned to and annotated the same book over a long period of time (1580–1608). Apart from clear visible differences in the quality of the handwriting and ink, there are
- [Thinking about data](https://archaeologyofreading.org/thinking-about-data/) - I’m Mark Patton, one of two programmers working on the project. The scholars are focused on the research they want to do. John Abrahams and I are focused on the technology required to support that research. On digital humanities projects like AOR, I always find it helpful to think about the project in terms of
- [Visual marginalia!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/visual-marginalia/) - On Friday morning, May 1, Matt and I traveled from London to Cambridge to attend the Early Modern Visual Marginalia workshop, organized by Alexander Marr and Kate Isard. This workshop focused on a specific type of marginalia, namely drawings or other forms of visual annotations that early modern readers drew in (or sometimes literally cut
- [A look at the lightly annotated books](https://archaeologyofreading.org/a-look-at-the-lightly-annotated-books/) - I’m Amanda Brunton, one of the research assistants working on Harvey’s marginalia as part of the Archaeology of Reading project. I joined the team at the beginning of March and will be contributing to this blog as I transcribe the marginalia. The rest of the group have been very kind in letting me get started
- [On neologisms and horses](https://archaeologyofreading.org/on-neologisms-and-horses/) - Today I’d like to share one of the many complex—and often maddening—aspects of working with Harvey’s marginalia: his neologisms. His annotations throughout the Domenichi text (which I shared in my last post) frequently contain technical words, mainly borrowed—or entirely invented retrospectively—from Greek. I say “technical” because these words seem to serve Harvey as a means
- [Wir sind alle Berliner: AOR @ RSA2015](https://archaeologyofreading.org/wir-sind-alle-berliner-aor-rsa2015/) - Last week was the 2015 edition of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference, held at the Humboldt University of Berlin (26–28 March). It’s one of these American mega conferences, the size of which can be quite overwhelming, and CELL unanimously decided that easing into it was best done by eating some traditional German food
- [Harvey’s joke books](https://archaeologyofreading.org/harveys-joke-books/) - Greetings, I’m one of the transcribers working on Harvey’s annotations for the Archaeology of Reading project, and I’ll also be contributing to the blog as I go along. I thought I’d start with an introduction to the text that I’m currently working on: a single volume comprising two sixteenth-century Italian joke books bound together and
- [Getting started!](https://archaeologyofreading.org/getting-started/) - This is the first of many blogs to be written by members of the Archaeology of Reading (AOR) project. The blogs will deal with various aspects of the project, such as the scholarly and technical questions we face on a daily basis, and aims to offer a look behind the curtains. So stay tuned for

## Pages

- [Home](https://archaeologyofreading.org/) - The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe (AOR) uses digital technologies to enable the systematic exploration of the historical reading practices of Renaissance scholars nearly 450 years ago. This is possible through AOR’s corpus of thirty-six fully digitized and searchable versions of early printed books filled with tens of thousands of handwritten notes, left by
- [Partner Institutions](https://archaeologyofreading.org/the-partners/) - Research and Development The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, University College London Princeton University Library Contributing Libraries British Library Cambridge University Library Christ Church Library Folger Shakespeare Library The Houghton Library, Harvard University The Newberry Library New York Society Library Princeton University Library University College London Library Royal College
- [A History of Gabriel Harvey's Library](https://archaeologyofreading.org/gabriel-harvey-his-library-and-the-aor-corpus/) - To go directly to the overview of Harvey's library, click here [Excel spreadsheet]. “It is not books, that make the skillfullman, but the knowledg of bookes: & the memorie of knowledg: & the practis of memorie, both in words, & in deeds.” Harvey in Guicciardini, Detti et fatti, sig. BIv. “Tell me what you eat,
- [Teaching with AOR](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pedagogy/) - The Archaeology of Reading was created to advance and broaden the ways in which scholars study early modern reading practices. On a wider level, however, the transcriptions, translations, and images in the AOR environment provide ample opportunity for teachers as well as scholars to explore the richness of early modern book culture and to engage
- [Exercises For Secondary Schools](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pedagogy/for-secondary-schools/) - Exercise 1: The Printed, Handwritten Book The invention and spread of printing dramatically increased the number and scope of books in circulation in early modern Europe. (For more on the invention and spread of printing, please visit the StoryMap provided by the Library of Congress). Over the first fifty years, Europe’s printers began
- [Conversations with Books](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pedagogy/conversations-with-books/) - Suggested Assigned Readings Richard Calis et al. “Passing the Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580-1730” Past & Present 261 (2018): 69-141. Niccolo Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori, 10 December 1513. Anthony Grafton, Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Princeton, NJ, 1997), pp. 10-52. Learning Outcomes Build awareness of the
- [Print, Script, Image](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pedagogy/print-script-image/) - Suggested Assigned Readings Harold Love, “Oral and Scribal Texts in Early Modern England” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain vol. IV (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 97-121. William Sherman, "The Reader's Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration" (delivered at Columbia University, 2014). Learning Outcomes Examine the ways that marginalia interact with all aspects of
- [Libraries Without Walls](https://archaeologyofreading.org/pedagogy/libraries-without-walls/) - Suggested Assigned Reading William Sherman, John Dee (Amherst, MA, 1995), pp. 29-52. Roger Chartier, “Libraries without Walls” Representations 42 (1993): 38-52. John Dee, A Compendious Rehearsal (London, 1842), chapter 7. Learning Outcomes Discuss the practices of organizing and recovering knowledge practiced by early modern readers. Integrate the individual practices within the larger history of reading and
- [Downloads](https://archaeologyofreading.org/downloads/) - Bibliographical Society of America Webinar The AOR team was delighted to be invited to take part in a "webinar" arranged by The Bibliographical Society of America in March 2020. This 56-minute webinar provides an introduction to AOR intended for anyone – experts and non-experts – wishing to learn how it can be customized for on-line
- [Walsingham Ypodigma](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/walsingham-ypodigma/) - Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae (London: John Day, 1574) [Bound with Historia brevis (1574)]. [4], 39, 38-146, 141-199, [5] pp., 30 cm (fo). Royal College of Physicians Library, 10552-2 D1/17-c-11. [For biographical details about Thomas Walsingham, see the essay for the Historia brevis.] In contrast to the Historia brevis, the Ypodigma Neustriae highlights Walsingham’s interest in
- [Walsingham Historia](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/walsingham-historia/) - Thomas Walsingham, Historia brevis (London: Henry Bynneman, 1574) [Bound with Ypodigma Neustriae (1574)]. [12], 267, [85] pp., 33 cm (fo). Royal College of Physicians Library, 10552-2 D1/17-c-11. The life of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422) bookends that of Matthew Paris as the high-water mark of historical production at the monastery of St. Albans. During his tenure at
- [Saa](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/saa/) - Jacobo a Saa, De navigatione libri tres, quibus mathematicae disciplinae explicantur (Paris: Reginaldus and Claudius Calderius, 1549) 106 leaves, 17 cm. (8vo) Cambridge, Cambridge University Library R*.5.27(F) Drawing on advances in the scientific disciplines, the art of navigation became the central concern of maritime European nations looking to expand their influence in an age of
- [Quintilian](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/quintilian/) - Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus], Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII (Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1540). 607, [25] pp, 18 cm (8vo). London, Royal College of Physicians Library, 10106 D1/20-b-3. Written in the first century AD, Quintilian’s treatise on the education of schoolboys in rhetoric made rich use of the works of his golden age predecessors, and remained an
- [Postel](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/postel/) - Postel, Guillaume. De originibus, seu, de varia et potentissimum orbi Latino hanc diem incognita, aut inconsidera historia, quum totius Orientis, tum maxime Tartarum, Persarum, Turcarum, & omnium Abrahami & Noachi alumnorum origines & mysteria Brachmanum retegente (Basel: Johannis Oporinus, 1553). 135 pp., 17 cm. London, Royal College of Physicians Library, 10601 D1/20-d-12. Hailed as one
- [Pliny](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/pliny/) - Ryff, Hermann Walter. In Caii Plinii secvndi natvralis historiae argutissimi scriptoris I. & II. Cap. Libri XXX commentarius (Würtzburg: Johann Müller, 1548). [28] leaves, 20 cm (4o) London, Royal College of Physicians Library 9978 D1/19-c-27. Active in the first half of the sixteenth century, Hermann Walter Ryff (styled Medicus & Mathematicus by Dee in his
- [Paris](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/paris/) - Matthew Paris, Flores historiarum (London: Thomas Marsh, 1570). [12], 440, 466, [22] pp., 30cm. London, Royal College of Physicians Library, 10653 D1/19-e-7. Few medieval English historians could be more recognized or more acclaimed than Matthew Paris (1200-1259). His engaging and sometimes biting accounts of his own times, gleaned from personal acquaintance with the figures concerned
- [Paracelsus Meteorum](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/paracelsus-meteorum/) - Paracelsus [Theophrastus von Hohenheim], Das buch meteororvm (Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Byrckman, 1566). [1], 106 leaves (214 p.), 21 cm (4o). Signatures [Pi]A-2C⁴2D². New York, New York Society Library, Win 188. [For biographical information on Paracelsus, see the entry for the Baderbuchlin.] Perhaps the most controversial of Paracelsus’ medical and material endeavors was his attempt
- [Paracelsus Baderbuchlin](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/paracelsus-baderbuchlin/) - Paracelsus [Theophrastus von Hohenheim], Baderbuchlin: sechs kostliche tractat, armen vnd reychen, nutzlich vnd notwendig, von wasserbadern. (Mülhausen: Peter Schmidt, 1562). [62] pp., 19 cm. Signatures A-H4. New York, New York Society Library, Win 189. The career of the physician and polymath Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541) was fraught with confrontation and controversy even in an age
- [Pantheus](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/pantheus/) - Joannes Pantheus [Giovanni Pantheo], Voarchadumia contra alchimiam, ars distincta ab alchimia et sophia (Venice: Giovanni Tacuino 1530). [2] + 69 + [19 inserted leaves], 4to. London, British Library, C.120.b.4.(2.) More so than most genres of early printed books, alchemical books can never be considered “complete” or finished works. Their composition and attribution varied across centuries
- [Ovid](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/ovid/) - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Amatoria, opera. (Paris: Simon de Colines, 1529). 212 + 210 leaves, 18cm (8vo) London, Royal College of Physicians Library D1/20-a-13. Although Cicero and Virgil often feature heavily in discussions of Renaissance and early modern Latinity, the rediscovery and resurgence of Ovid is also a notable feature of Renaissance literary activity. Like
- [Monmouth](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/monmouth/) - Geoffrey of Monmouth (fl. 1135), Britanniae vtriusque Regum et principum origo & gesta insignia [Historia regum Britanniae] (Paris: Iosse Badé, 1517). [8], CI, [1] leaves, 4⁰ Oxford, Christ Church Wb.5.12. The printing of this text, commonly known today as the Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) ushered in a new chapter in
- [Mizauld](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/mizauld/) - Mizauld, Antoine. Planetologia, rebus astronomicis, medicis, et philosophicis erudite referta. (Lyon, Macé Bonhomme, 1551). [8], 97, [6] pp., 23cm. London, Royal College of Physicians Library 7831-1. Dee’s library at Mortlake was full of the works of contemporary thinkers and medical practitioners who attempted to write what might be called philosophies of medicine. Their works attempted
- [Maternus](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/maternus/) - Julius Firmicus Maternus, Astronomicon (Basel: Johannes I Herwagen, 1533). 2 pts. [in 1]: 246 leaves, 31 cm. London, University College London Library, STRONG ROOM OGDEN A QUARTO 9. Writing during the Roman Empire’s transition to Christianity, in his Astronomicon Julius Firmicus Maternus aimed to summarize the rudiments and history of astrological study. Though widely overshadowed
- [Alexander](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/alexander/) - Andreas Alexander, Mathemalogium primae partis super novem et veterem loycam Aristotelis (Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 1504). 42 leaves, 31cm. London, Royal College of Physicians Library, 7997 D1/48-b-19. Andreas Alexander’s Mathemalogium, printed locally during his tenure as professor of mathematics at Leipzig (1502-4), sought to investigate and validate Aristotle’s logic mathematically. In it, Alexander suggested that
- [Euclid](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/euclid/) - Euclid. Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece & Latine [Elements] (Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1557) 130 ff., (8vo) London, British Library C.122.bb.35. Euclid’s treatise on the foundational principles of geometry, first promulgated at some point during the fourth and third centuries BCE, would remain the bedrock of mathematical study for millennia. From the 1480s on, printed editions
- [Dorn](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/dorn/) - Gerhard Dorn, Chymisticum artificium naturæ, theoricum & practicum ([Basel: Thomas Guarin,] 1568). 156 pp.,16 cm. (8vo). Signatures A-I8-K6. New York, New York Society Library Win 86 Little is known about the life of Gerhard Dorn except that he was born, in Mechelen in modern-day Belgium, around 1530, and began publishing books in the early 1560s.
- [Crusius](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/crusius/) - Paulus Crusius, Doctrina revolutionum Solis, tam aequalium quam apparentium, methodica ratione (Jena: Thomas Rebart, 1567). 44 leaves, 4o. London, British Library 531.k.6.(3). A follower of Philip Melanchthon and an influence on Joseph Scaliger, Paulus Crusius (1525-72) was one of a number of astronomers seeking to use observation and ancient texts to critique and comment upon
- [Colon](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/colon/) - Fernando Colón, Historie del S.D. Fernando Colombo nelle quali s’ha particolare, & vera relatione della vita, & de fatti dell’Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo padre, trans. Alfonso Ulloa (Venice, Francesco de’ Francesci Sanese, 1571). 247 ff. (8vo) London, British Library 615.d.7 The younger son of Christopher Columbus (though born out of wedlock), Fernando Colón spent
- [Cicero](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/cicero-i/) - Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Opera, ed. Pietro Vettori (Paris: Robert Estienne, 1538-9). 4 volumes in 2, 40cm (fo) London, Royal College of Physicians Library, 10549-50 D1/16-b-5 and 10549-50 D1/16-b-6. The second member of a storied dynasty of French printers, Robert Estienne achieved renown for his editions of biblical, classical, and Greek texts. That fame would bring
- [Cardano](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/cardano/) - Cardano, Girolamo. Libelli quinque quorum duo priores, iam denuo sunt emendati, duo sequentes iam primo in lucem editi, & quintus magna parte auctus est (Nuremberg: Johann Petraeus, 1547). [4], 309, [1] leaves (fo) London, Royal College of Physicians Library, 7134 D1/46-b-7. As was the case with many of the other physicians read by Dee, the
- [Beroaldus](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/beroaldus/) - Mattheus Beroaldus, Chronicum, scripturae sacrae autoritate constitutum ([Geneva]: Antoine Chuppin, 1575). [12], 267, [85] pp., 33 cm (fo) London, Royal College of Physicians Library, D126.6, 17e (D1/17-e-8). Practiced for centuries by theologians and historians alike, the development and advancement of chronology was reaching its high-water mark during Dee’s lifetime. This work by Matthieu Beroald (or
- [Tusser](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/tusser/) - Thomas Tusser (1524?- 80), Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie: as well for the champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or seuerall, mixed in eurie month with huswiferie, ouer and besides the booke of huswiferie, corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet
- [Smith](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/smith/) - Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77), De recta & emendata linguæ Anglicæ scriptione, dialogus (Paris: Robert Estienne, 1568). [2], 44 leaves; 23 cm. (4to). Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, South East (RB) (Ex) PE1137.A2 S53 1568. A fellow son of Saffron Walden and known for his own precocity at Cambridge, Smith was an elder
- [Magnus](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/magnus/) - Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala (1490-1557/58). Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, earumque diuersis statibus, conditionibus … ac mineris metallicis, & rebus mirabilibus, necnon vniuersis penè animalibus in septentrione degentibus, eorumq[ue] natura: Opus vt varium, plurimarumque rerum cognitione refertum, atque cum exemplis externis, tum expressis rerum internarum picturis illustratum, ita delectatione iucunditat’eque plenum, maxima lectoris animum voluptate facilè
- [Melanchthon](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/melanchthon/) - Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560), Selectarum declamationum Philippi Melanthonis : quas conscripsit & partim ipse in schola Vuitebergensi recitauit, partim alijs recitandas exhibuit : tomus primus[-quartus] (Strasbourg: Samuel Emmel], 1564-67). 4 v.; 18 cm. (8vo). Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, South East (RB) (Ex) PA8550.D43 1564. Melanchthon’s declamations, or university lectures, at Wittenberg constituted
- [Machiavelli](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/machiavelli/) - Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), The arte of warre, Trans. Peter Whitehorne (London: s.n., 1573). 2 pts. in 1 v. : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to). Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, South East (RB) (Ex) U101.M16 1573. Harvey read the ancients and the moderns side by side, as did Machiavelli before him, something
- [Livy](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/livy/) - Titus Livius Patavini [Livy] (d. 17? CE), T. Liuii Patauini Romanae historiae principis decades tres [Ab urbe condita] (Basel: Ioannes Heruagios, 1555). [16], 829, [288] p.; 39 cm. (fol.). Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, South East (RB) (Ex) PA6452 .A2 1555q. Harvey’s Livy is rightly famous, not only for the exhaustive Elizabethan
- [Guicciardini](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/guicciardini/) - Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-89), Detti, et fatti piacevoli et gravi, di diversi principi filosofi, et cortigiani (Venice: Christoforo de’ Zanetti, 1571) [BOUND WITH: Lodovico Domenichi, Facetie, motti, et burle (1571)]. 211 leaves ; 16 x 11 cm. Folger Shakespeare Library, H.a.2. It is perhaps ironic that Harvey wrote on the title page of one of the two books bound together
- [Frontinus](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/frontinus/) - Sextus Julius Frontinus (d. 103 CE), The strategemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre, Trans. Sir Richard Morison (London: Thomas Berthelet, 1539). [224] pp.; 17 cm. (8vo). Signatures: a⁸ A-N⁸. STC (2nd ed.) 11402. Houghton Library, Harvard University, STC 11402. This book, produced by Henry VIII’s longtime official printer Thomas Bethelet was translated from the Latin by
- [Freigius](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/freigius/) - Johannes Thomas Freig [Freigius] (1543-83), Ioan. Thomae Freigii Paratitla, seu, Synopsis pandectarum iuris ciuilis(Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1583). 1 v.; 18 cm. (8vo). Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, South East (RB) (Ex) K623.F745 1583. Freigius’s logical treatment of the Digesta seu Pandectae, the digest of Roman civil laws dating back to the 6th-century
- [Domenichi](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/domenichi/) - Lodovico Domenichi (1515-64), Facetie, motti, et burle di diversi signori et persone private (Venice: Andrea Muschio, 1571). [BOUND WITH: Lodovico Guicciardini, Detti, et fatti (1571)]. 211 leaves; 16 x 11 cm. Folger Shakespeare Library, H.a.2. It is perhaps ironic that Harvey wrote on the title page of one of the two books bound together in this volume, both of
- [Castiglione Italian](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/castiglione-italian/) - Baldassare Castiglione, conte (1478-1529), Il cortegiano del conte Baltassar Castiglione. Nuovamente stampato, et con somma diligentia revisto, con la sua tavola di nuovo aggionta (Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1541). Fols. [11], CXCV leaves; 16 cm. University College London Library, Strong Room Castiglione 1541 (2). This quintessential dialogue on the ideal qualities of the courtier was
- [Castiglione English](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/castiglione-english/) - Baldassare Castiglione, conte (1478-1529), The covrtyer of Covnt Baldessar Castilio diuided into foure bookes. Very necessary and profitatable for yonge gentilmen and gentilwomen abiding in court, palaice or place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby, Trans. Sir Thomas Hoby (London: William Seres, 1561). A-C⁴ (C₄ blank), A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴. First English edition. Newberry Library, Special Collections, VAULT
- [Buchanan Scotorum](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/buchanan-scotorum/) - George Buchanan (1506-82), De Maria Scotorum regina: totáque eius contra regem coniuratione, fœdo cum Bothuelio adulterio, nefaria in maritum crudelitate & rabie, horrendo insuper & deterrimo eiusdem parricidio: plena, & tragica planè historia (London: John Day, [1571]?). 1 p., 122, [3] p. 15 cm. Signatures: A-Q⁴. Portions of the present text are now known not to have
- [Buchanan Detectioun](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/buchanan-detectioun/) - George Buchanan (1506-82), Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes : touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erle Bothwell, and ane defence of the trew lordis, mainteineris of the kingis graces ctioun [sic] and authaoritie / translated out of the Latine quhilke was written
- [What Is the Archaeology of Reading?](https://archaeologyofreading.org/what-is-the-archaeology-of-reading/) - While the body of early modern scholarship on the history of reading practices has burgeoned during the past several decades—guided in large part by the initial scholarly work of our project partners, Lisa Jardine† and Anthony Grafton—as a collective body of knowledge the history of reading has nonetheless remained limited to isolated, partial, and impressionistic
- [An Overview of the AOR Viewer](https://archaeologyofreading.org/user-manual/) - This page provides basic information about the core functions of the AOR viewer: • Viewing images • Manipulating images • Viewing transcriptions • Searching transcriptions • Exporting research findings More detailed information can be found in the User Manual [PDF]. The Viewer’s Functions Opening any book in a viewer window (also called a pane) will
- [How To Use AOR](https://archaeologyofreading.org/documentation/) - Hear how scholars, teachers and researchers are using the AOR research environment Click the images below to learn more about specific functions and uses of the viewer
- [How to Do AOR Yourself](https://archaeologyofreading.org/how-to-do-aor-yourself/) - From the very start of the project, many people have been asking us how they can leverage the AOR technology and apply it to their own research materials. It is impossible to provide a one-size-fits-all blueprint, since particular aspects of this project are determined by a number of contingent factors, including the research interests of
- [Technical Documentation](https://archaeologyofreading.org/technical-documentation/) - The infrastructure of the Archaeology of Reading (AOR) consists of layered components separated by interfaces. The diagram below shows those components and their dependencies. Frontend components are delivered by a web browser to the user. Backend components are responsible for preserving data and delivering that data to front end components in the appropriate form. Many
- [Who are the Archaeologists?](https://archaeologyofreading.org/who-are-the-archaeologists/) - Johns Hopkins University Earle Havens Principal Investigator, Sheridan Libraries Earle is the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, at Johns Hopkins University. He is responsible for all aspects of the conception, development, and implementation of
- [London Symposium](https://archaeologyofreading.org/downloads/london-symposium/) - Click to view the full version of our symposium flyer. Video We took the opportunity to interview our speakers and project participants about what they've done with the Archaeology of Reading so far and what they hope to do in the future. From those interviews, we put together the following clips on the AOR project,
- [Data Releases](https://archaeologyofreading.org/data-releases/) - Introduction A data release contains all archived data from the Archaeology of Reading project with the exception of images. In addition, statistics derived from transcriptions and the way they were worked on are included. The data is arranged in a file-system hierarchy distributed as a BagIt package. Releases are numbered and named like aor_drX.zip where
- [AOR Data](https://archaeologyofreading.org/aor-data/) - The creation of a data set comprising all the interventions made by Gabriel Harvey and John Dee in the books that are part of the AOR corpora has made it possible to subject their marginal notes to a statistic analysis. A description of this analysis and a summary of its results can be found below.
- [HTML and RMap Export](https://archaeologyofreading.org/rmap/) - The updated AOR viewer has the possibility to export research findings in two formats: as a HTML file and as a RMap linked data graph. This page contains information on how to use these export functions and what can be done with the exported files. First of all, in order to export research findings, click
- [Selected Further Reading](https://archaeologyofreading.org/further-reading/) - The History of the Book Ronald B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927) Fredson Bowers, Principles of Bibliographical Description (1949) Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean Martin, L’apparition du livre (1958); The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450–1800, trans. David Gerard (1976) Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic
- [A Biography of John Dee](https://archaeologyofreading.org/john-dee-a-biographical-note/) - Though proud of his family’s genealogical roots in Wales (which he attempted to connect to those of the Tudors), John Dee was born a Londoner to a merchant family of fluctuating commercial success and baptized at the parish church of St Dunstan’s in the East on July 13, 1527. Like Gabriel Harvey, he received an
- [A History of John Dee's Library](https://archaeologyofreading.org/john-dee-his-library-and-the-aor-corpus/) - “The whole Renaissance is in this library.” This is how Frances A. Yates described John Dee’s library in her Theatre of the World (1969, p. 12). Others similarly claimed that his collection constituted the scientific academy of Renaissance England. With its three to four thousand volumes, Dee’s library in Mortlake was indeed not
- [What is the History of Books?](https://archaeologyofreading.org/historiography/) - The history of the book has its roots in bibliography, librarianship, and the intersections of social, cultural, and material history. It has emerged in recent decades as an academic discipline with its own undergraduate and postgraduate university courses, scholarly journals, monographic series, conferences, and research centers. It is methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary, situated between
- [A Biography of Gabriel Harvey](https://archaeologyofreading.org/biography/) - Gabriel Harvey was born in 1551/2 in the prosperous market town of Saffron Walden, Essex. Situated between London and Cambridge, the town took both its name and its prosperity from the local cultivation of the saffron crocus, used to make a particularly valuable yellow dye. Harvey’s father, John, was a farmer and rope maker, a
- [AOR Dissemination and Publications](https://archaeologyofreading.org/dissemination/) - CONFERENCE PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES, & INVITED LECTURES 2019 Anthony Grafton and Earle Havens, “Marginalia and Literary Scholarship,” Seminar in the History of the Book, Rutgers University, April 2019 Anthony Grafton and Earle Havens, “Stretched or Cropped Margins?: Annotation Studies between the Disciplines,” Joint-Session of the American Historical Association and Modern Language Association national conferences, Chicago,
- [The Books and their Readers: Gabriel Harvey and John Dee](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/) - Go to the Dee Books A Biography of John Dee A History of Dee’s Library Go to the Harvey Books A Biography of Gabriel Harvey A History of Harvey's Library What is the History of Books? Selected Further Reading
- [The Harvey Books](https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/harvey-corpus/) - Go to the Dee Books
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- [Archaeology of Reading corpus BACKUP](https://archaeologyofreading.org/archaeology-of-reading-corpus-backup/) - Earle HavensBuchanan, Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes (1571) Buchanan, De Maria Scotorum regina (1571?) Castiglione, Il cortegiano (1541) Castiglione, The covrtyer (1561) Domenichi, Facetie, motti, et burle (1571) Freigius, Ioan. Thomae Freigii Paratitla (1583) Frontinus, The strategemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre (1539) Guicciardini, Detti, et fatti (1571) Livius, Romanae
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