Spotted in the stacks: this scavenger hunt in the pages of Wilson Library’s copy of The whole treatise of the cases of conscience, distingvished into three bookes (1632). At first, these reader annotations (by former owner William Gasker) seemed like a normal treasure hunt until I realized:
1) The hunt leads the reader in an infinite loop
2) The page numbers didn’t match up with the actual pages I turned through. Turns out, this was because the pages were bound out of order! (Page order was actually 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 97, 98, 99, 100, 109, 110, 111, 112, 105, 106, 107, 108, 113, 114, 115)
Not sure if this weird scavenger hunt is the annotator’s way of drawing attention to the misbound pages or if the scavenger hunt actually leads to a huge Da-Vinci Code-esque revelation if you use some sort of top secret cipher.
Intrigued? Come visit Wilson Library and solve the mystery yourself!
