See links to essays on the marginalia in the Bibles Bunyan and read and quoted in Pilgrim's Progress. It is important to know that Bunyan was a religious non-conformist who spent twelve years in jail because he would not conform. See also John Richard Greaves' Bunyan and English Nonconformity.
Lawrence Lipking, "The Marginal Gloss," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 3, No. 4. (Summer, 1977), pp. 609-655.
John Locke, "A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul- Introduction (pt-2)"
Bunyan, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
John Bunyan, Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternall Judgement: Or, the Truth of the Truth of the Resurrection of the Bodies, Both of Good and Bad at the Last Day: Asserted, and Proved by God's Word, Etc ...(Jan 1665) For Francis Smith
"Thus hast thou (good Reader) not only to note, but also to follow in this manner, a singular example of Christian fortitude . . . .
Richard L. Greaves, "'Let Truth Be Free': John Bunyan and the Restoration Crisis of 1667-1673," Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 587-605
The Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther
Calvinism (Predestination, the Elect, the Damned)
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Bunyan and Calvinism: John Bunyan, Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies (Oxford World's Classics)
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563, 1570, 1576, 1583) was a central book for Bunyan. He had a copy with him while he as in prison.
This chapter provides a very helpful overview of the different uses of notes in printed Bibles: Evelyn B. Tribble, "Chapter One: Authority, Control, Community," in Margins and Marginality (1993)
The Geneva Bible "Book of Job"
The first examination of the worthy seruant of God, Mystresse Anne Askew the younger daughter of Syr VVilliam Askew Knight of Lincolne-shire, lately martyred in Smith-fielde, by the Romish antichristian broode
Translating (Anne) Askew: The textual remains of a sixteenth-century heretic and saintKemp, Theresa D. Renaissance Quarterly; Cambridge Vol. 52, Iss. 4, (Winter 1999): 1021-1045
Galvin and Bunyan on Word and Image: Is There a Text in Interpreter's House?"
Roger Sharrock, "Temptation and Understanding"
Thomas H. Luxon, "Other Mens [sic] Words" and "New Birth": Bunyan's Antihermeneutics of Experience," Texas Studies in Literature and Language , Fall 1994, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 259-290
Alison Searle, "Chapter 5: Bunyan and the Word," The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan (2018)
T. A. Birrell, "Sir Roger L'Estrange: The Journalism of Orality," in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 4: 1557-1695 (2002), pp. 657-64
Michael Davies, "Of Thing Seen and Unseen: Graceful Reading: and Narrative Practice in Grace Abounding"
Harold Love, "L’Estrange, Joyce and the Dictates of Typography,"in Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture, (2008) pp. 167-80
PAMPHLET WARS: ROGER L’ESTRANGE AND PRINTED POLEMIC IN RESTORATION ENGLAND
Hancock, Maxine, "Bunyan as Reader: The Record of Grace Abounding," Bunyan Studies; Autumn 1994
Graham Ward, "To Be a Reader Bunyan, Grace Abounding," Literature and Theology, March 1990, Vol. 4, No. 1
Hannah Sullivan, "Why Do Authors Produce Textual Variation on Purpose? Or, Why Publish a Text That Is Still Unfolding?" Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship,12-13 | 2016, pp. 77-103
Biblical Cross-references and Commentary (Didactic? Satirical?)
The John Wycliffe Bible
Frith, John, 1503-1533., Tyndale, William, d. 1536.The testament of master Wylliam Tracie esquier, expounded both by Willism Tindall and Iho[n] Frith. Wherin thou shalt perceyue with what charitie y[e] chaunceler of Worcester burned whan he toke vp the deek carkas and made asshes of hit after hit was buried
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535
Collected Works of Erasmus: Annotations on Galatians and Ephesians, Volume 58
Desiderius Erasmus Editor: Anne Reeve,
Erasmus' Annotations on the New Testament (1516) Galatians to the Apocalypse. Facsimile of the Final Latin Text with All Earlier Variants / Acts, Romans, I and II Corinthians : Facsimile of the Final Latin Text with All Earlier Variants
booke of the common
prayer and admini-
nistracion of
the
Sacramentes, and other
rites and ceremonies of
the Churche after the
use of the Churche
of England.
(See "A Preface" for instuctions on how to read the book)
The Geneva Bible first edition (1560)
Lloyd E. Berry ed., The Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition (University of Wisconsin Press, 1969)
The Geneva Bible (1599)
The Bishop's Bible (1568) facsimile
1611 The Authorized King James Bible
1642 King James Holy Bible (The edition John Bunyan read)
NEGAT HOC ("To this purpose" or "as needed")
Christopher de Hamel, "Chapter 9: Bibles of the Protestant Reformation," in The Book: A History of the Bible
Thomas Freeman, "Texts, Lies, and Microfilm: Reading and Misreading Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs,'" The Sixteenth Century JournalVol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 23-46
Peter Stallybrass, "What Is a Letter?"
Stephen Orgel, "What is a Text?" What Is a Character? What is an Editor?"
Peter Stallybrass, "The Library and Material Texts" (Contrast with Borges' "Library of Babel")
William W. E. Slights, "Marginall Notes That Spoile the Text: Scriptural Annotation in the English Renaissance," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 255-278
William W. E. Slights, "The Edifying Margins of Renaissance English Books," Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4. (Winter, 1 989), pp. 682-71
KEVIN SEIDEL PILGRIM'S PROGRESS AND THE BOOKELH Vol. 77, No. 2 (SUMMER 2010), pp. 509-533
Jennifer Richards and Fred Schurink, "Introduction: The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modern England," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (September 2010), pp. 345-361
Stewart, "Anarchives"Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?(selections)