Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England Book

List of Illustrations     ix
Preface     xi
Of Marks and Methods
Introduction: Used Books     3
Toward a History of the Manicule     25
Reading the Matriarchive     53
Reading and Religion
"The Book thus put in every vulgar hand": Marking the Bible     71
An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer     87
Remarkable Readers
John Dee's Columbian Encounter     113
Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine     127
Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors
Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks     151
Afterword: The Future of Past Readers     179
List of Abbreviations     183
Notes     185
Bibliography     223
Index     251
Acknowledgments     257