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An example of an early reader exercising his or her penmanship. He or she only got as far as the letter ‘r’ and the ink has subsequently bled into the page. There are few other annotations in the book, but we do know it once belonged to a certain Edward Gwynn because he bound all his volumes the same way — with his name gold-tooled on the front cover, and his initials on the back. Marsh’s Library has 57 books from Gwynn’s dispersed library, the most held by any institution in the world: the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC holds another 26.

Citation:
Ludolf von Sachsen, Prologus in librum domini ludolphi de suchen. de terra sancta et itinere iherosolimitano... (Gouda, 1483–4),
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed December 6, 2025,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/580