Don’t write in your books! Who doesn’t remember this phrase from your schooldays? But for book lover

Don’t write in your books! Who doesn’t remember this phrase from your schooldays? But for book lovers this admonition makes no sense—reading and writing are inseparable. All those who love and live with literature know that books are not static things, but rather dynamic tools of learning, thought and imagination. The best readers both read and write back.All over the world in every language there are hundreds of different words that describe the act of writing:  Scribble, inscribe, doodle, dash off, draft, compose, create….annotate—visible language in all its permutations.This week the Brooklyn Museum Wilbour Library of Egyptology is highlighting our rich trove of annotated works by our founder Charles Edwin Wilbour (1833-1896). Wilbour’s personal library forms the core of our collection and includes all the major texts for the study of Ancient Egypt of his time. Many of the books are annotated with notes, shorthand, comments, corrections, drawings and more.These annotations are currently being catalogued and preserved so that they can be more accessible to researchers and the general public. The notes, drawings and marginalia are fun and fascinating, but they are also valuable research tools.Wilbour, like other Egyptologists of the time, traveled with his books to excavations and annotated them on site; he also traded volumes with fellow scholars. These marginal writings are a vibrant record of thought and a form a scholarly communication. A list of Wilbour annotated titles can be found here.Posted by Roberta Munoz with help from intern, Isabel Adler -- source link

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