On the rear flyleaves of British Library 3052.cc.9—a copy of Tomson's Geneva Bible—is written (in distinctive handwriting) an earnest prayer-poem by a woman named Margaret Barnard: Note: some of the marginalia is indecipherable to me at this stage - any missing...
Douce P 584, The zodiake of life Douce P 584 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, contains The zodiake of life, a translation from the original Latin of Marcello Palingenio Stellato. The text is divided into twelve books for the twelve signs of the zodiac. Each offers...
The margins and end papers of this illustrated folio volume in the Bodleian library, printed between 1677 and 1685, contain many signs of use, including the signatures of more than one woman reader…