(with regard to the Devonshire Manuscript (British Library, Add. MS 17492), a verse miscellany from the 1530s and early 1540s, compiled by three women who attended the court of Anne Boleyn: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), and Lady Margaret Douglas)
"The interactions among the book's users in and around these poems take the form of comments written in the margins, wordplay of various kinds, the reworking of existing poems to fit the circumstances of the writer, and the composition of many original works."
Tom Standage, Social Media: The First 2000 Years