Glitch composition.
From the front matter of A Sorrowful Respect Paid to the Dead Vindicated: and Proper Limits Set to It by Thomas Barnard (1718). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 23, 2009.
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“Sembra la mano di freddy krueger!” Submitted by Claudio Consonni.
From the back matter of Canones et Decreta Sacrosancti Oecumenici (1569). Original from la Biblioteca Pubblica Bavarese. Digitized July 20 2012.
Endpapers showing acidic damage, likely the result of the leather.
From the back matter of Arcana Gallica: or The Secret History of France for the Last Century (1714). [Here]
Note: See how the leather was wrapped unevenly around the boards? –kcw
Employee’s hand corrected with pattern of text. Submitted by pwclose.
From p. 188 of Nic. Perotti Cornucopiae Sive Comentarii Linguae Latinae by Nicolaus Perottus and Benedetto Brugnoli (1506). Original from Bavarian State Library. Digitized August 6 2011.
Employee’s hand, in full color.
From the front matter of Folia Sacrae Congregationis Concilii by Ecclesia Catholica Congregatio Concilii (1732). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized November 4, 2010.
Employee holds plates closed.
Throughout The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1732 to the Year 1744), edited by John Martyn (1747). Original from Montserrat Abbey Library. Digitized February 9, 2011.
Distortion of employee’s finger and ring.
From the back matter of Libanii Sophistae Graeci (1522). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized August 24, 2012.
Slices of text (and happenstance poetry).
From various pages of The Ladies’ Hand-book of Knitting, Netting, and Crochet (1842). [Here]
Note: I’m not the first to notice this. “Most even-numbered pages are missing; two of the few that exist are badly scanned, one includes the image of the scanning hand,” notes one user in a review. –kcw
Hands of digitization employee; image of fore-edge.
From front matter of The Large-Type Christian Cabinet (1878). [Here]
Employee’s hand captured turning the page.
From the front matter of Polygraphice by William Salmon (1672).
Employee holds in addendum.
From the back matter of Cottonseed Meal by Frederick Driggs Fuller and George Stronach Fraps (1919).
Employee’s hand bitten by high-contrast filter.
From the front matter of Letters from a Father to His Son, v. 2, by John Aikin (1800).
“Unopened plate (between pp 212-213), illustrating E. F. Boyd, his “On a Part of the Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone Series of Northumberland,” inTransactions, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. 9 (1860-61). (Google Books image here ; article pp 185-225)
Digitized March 7, 2011 from copy at Ghent University (internal stamp of Université de Gand., Laboratoire de Géologie, and bookplate of Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Geologisch Laboratorium).
Boyd’s essay is beautifully written. More images (no hands), from other articles in other volumes of these Transactions, start here.”
Submitted by John McVey (asfaltics).
Employee as surgeon. Submitted by thetwogermanys.
From Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'épilepsie, l'hystérie et l'Idiotie by Désiré Magloire Bourneville (1899). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
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From p.22 of Cunningham’s Textbook of Anatomy (1818). [Here]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkdbqyreCx1qixa76o1_400.png)
Movement of turning page
From p.22 of Cunningham’s Textbook of Anatomy (1818). [Here]