{"id":3928,"date":"2020-04-09T20:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T00:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2020-04-09T20:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T00:12:42","slug":"additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/2020\/04\/09\/additions\/","title":{"rendered":"Additions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The additions made by contributors to the book besides Clagett himself are embodied in the publication\u2019s paratext. In the case of <\/span>The Holy Spirit<\/span><\/i> by William Clagett, paratext is nothing especially unordinary, but nevertheless rich. While the book displays no diagrams, graphics, or art of any sort, it does contain a variety of aspects beyond the text itself as Clagett wrote that contribute to its structure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cover itself is relatively straightforward; it is brown weathered leather with no engravings or writing except for the strip of tape on the binding that identifies it as <\/span>The Holy Spirit. <\/span><\/i>Obviously, this was not a part of the book\u2019s initial making, but is still relevant as it affects the book\u2019s current physical presence. The storage and movement of <\/span>The Holy Spirit <\/span><\/i>is indicated through the library stickers and stamps on the front cover, as well as the first few leaves in the front. The prelims contain considerable information regarding the book\u2019s history, the process of its production, and all that has followed. These additions just date and track the work\u2019s motions. These aspects were described in the introduction to the book, explaining how the book was brought to Colby College when it was still named Waterville College, then became Colby University, and has been in the library ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The book features a page dedicated to the Imprimatur, which licensed the ecclesiastical book to be published by the Catholic Church. It lists the date of this approval, May 4, 1677, along with what looks to be a name, the location (London), and what appear to be Latin phrases. \u201cSacris\u201d indicates some alignment with sacredness. On the right leaf of the spread is the title page on which its long winded title is inscribed. This page is embellished with a border running along the outer edges with two parallel lines. In the corners, the ink does not align perfectly, which emphasizes the lack of uniformity that was easily achieved in this painstaking process. Below the title is an imprint which states that the book is \u201cthe first part,\u201d and a second edition. It was privately printed in by the Gun in St. Paul\u2019s Churchyard of London on behalf of Henry Brome in 1680.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few leaves that provide information related to a table of contents, but are structured differently. Each chapter is listed above a paragraph of quotations from the chapter which are separated by the page numbers from which the quotes were derived. There is a small sentence for every two or three pages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the following page is the preface. The top of the page is printed with illustrations of leaves, birds, and flowers. The ink marks around the edges of the print display that this was printed, rather than hand painted, since the edge of the press clearly picked up some ink, which was impressed onto the page. Below, the first letter of the text is a large illustrated uppercase \u201cA.\u201d This also shows imperfections from printing because there are marks where the block either did not pick up ink, or it was not fully impressed onto the paper. At the bottom, the pages are organized by letter, rather than number. Throughout the preface, there are catchwords, which continue into the rest of the text.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The recto begins the normal page numbering. In the actual text, they are located on the upper outside corners of each leaf, rather than at the bottom in the center. The running titles are inconsistent, probably related to the section of each page. With a physical copy of the publication, this minute ambiguity likely could be deciphered quickly. Regardless, the most logical explanation for the incongruity of the running title is that the pages are titled in accordance with the sections they fall under. Throughout the rest of the book, the text is organized in a very uniformed manner. The type is all the same size and font. The dimensions of the text on the page are the same, although there are occasional leaves in which the content was printed diagonally. This is another representation of the lack of machinery available at the time, and how laborious the process was. The formatting does not change until the end, where there is a prayer in italics followed by a straight line across the page, and \u201cthe end\u201d at the bottom. Scribbles and annotations were dispersed consistently through the text, collecting especially at the blank beginning and end leaves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The additions made by contributors to the book besides Clagett himself are embodied in the publication\u2019s paratext. In the case of The Holy Spirit by William Clagett, paratext is nothing especially unordinary, but nevertheless rich. While the book displays no diagrams, graphics, or art of any sort, it does contain a variety of aspects beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}