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Title: Annotations on Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger.
Alternative Title: Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger. London: Printed by I. Norton for Iohn Maynard and Timothy Wilkins ..., 1641.
Creator: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672
Date Created and/or Issued: [17th century]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations by an unknown reader in a 1641 copy of John Wilkins' Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger. There are marginal notations and symbols throughout the printed text (though most of the textual marginalia is written only in the first part of the book), and there is a long passage about writing in code. Marginal notes in the book's prefatory material appear to have been written in code. The hand (or hands) writing at the beginning of the book appears to be roughly contemporary to the text, while the longer cryptographic text at the end is likely in a slightly later hand. The pages are tightly trimmed at the top edge, with what appears to be some loss of marginal text.
Condition: Rebound in modern calf binding in 1980.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--17th century.
Extent: [14], 180 [i.e. 172] pages, bound; 17 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1w02j
Z103 .W68
Language: English
Subject: Cryptography--Early works to 1800.
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.--Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger.--1641.
Place: England.
Location: CLUW

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