Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism

The de Bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33816-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 265/20, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic

Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendrickson, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
List of Images
Abbreviations
1 The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius 1.1 The significance of the De bibliothecis
1.2 The Need for a New Edition of Lipsius’s De bibliothecis
2 Lipsius Proteus: The Career of a Scholar in an Age of Strife
3 Library Historiography before Lipsius
3.1 Manuals and Legends: Library Historiography in the Ancient World
3.2 Isidore of Seville: Literary Materiality and Literary Tradition in the Monastic World
3.3 Library Historiography and the Humanists
3.3.1 Francesco Petrarch
3.3.2 Michael Neander
3.3.3 Fulvio Orsini and Melchior Guilandinus
3.3.4 Library Historiography and Religious Authority
3.4 Library Historiography and Vatican Frescoes: Rocca and Lipsius
4 The De bibliothecis: Title, Structure, and Purpose
4.1 A Note on the Title of the De bibliothecis
4.2 Structure and Purpose of the De bibliothecis
Table 4.2: Chapter Outline of the De bibliothecis
5 Lipsius and his Sources
5.1 Ancient Sources
Table 5.1: Ancient Sources
5.2 Contemporary Sources
6 Print History
6.1 Latin Editions of the De bibliothecis
Table 6.1: List of Latin Editions of the De bibliothecis
6.2 Translations of the De bibliothecis
Table 6.2: List of Translations of the De bibliothecis
7 Editorial Principles
7.1 The Text
7.2 Orthography
7.3 Accents and Punctuation in Lipsius’s Latin
8 A Note on the Commentary

De bibliothecis: Text and Translation
De bibliothecis: Commentary

Works Cited by Author and Date

Index


List of Images
Figure 1: Title Page of the (1602) First Edition of the DB (digitized by Google Books)
Figure 2: Relationships between the DB editions
Figure 3: Ozymandias Fresco from the Vatican Library (photo: author)
Figure 4: The Serapeum in the Roman Period (McKenzie 2007, figure 350; courtesy of Judith McKenzie)
Figure 5: Hadrian’s Library in Athens (Sisson 1929, plate 21)
Figure 6: Rooms Traditionally Identified as Pergamene Royal Library (Bohn 1885, table 3)
Figure 7: Octavia’s Portico (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_portique_octavie.png (last access 30.7.16))
Figure 8: The Library of Palatine Apollo in the Augustan Era (Iacopi and Tedone 2005/6, table 8; courtesy of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma)
Figure 9: Twin Halls of the Post-Domitianic Palatine Apollo Library (De Gregori 1937, figure 5)
Figure 10: Inscription of Antiochus, a bibliotheca latina Apollinis, from Orsini’s Imagines (digitized by Google Books)
Figure 11: Inscription of Julius Falyx, a bibliotheca graeca palat., from Orsini’s Imagines (digitized by Google Books)
Figure 12: Map of Libraries in Ancient Rome (adapted from Wikimedia Commons)
Figure 13: Temple of Peace (Meneghini and Valenzani 2007, figure 65; courtesy of Roberto Meneghini)
Figure 14: Trajan’s Forum (Meneghini 2002, figure 151; courtesy of Roberto Meneghini)
Figure 15: The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor at Tivoli (Giuliani 2004, table 14; courtesy of Cairoli Fulvio Giuliani)
Figure 16: Pluteus from the Biblioteca Laurenziana (Clark 1901, figure 102)

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Hendrickson, Ph.D. (2013), UC Berkeley, is a Rome-Prize winner and teaches at Stanford Online High School. He has published on ancient libraries, ancient biography, and the reception of both in the Renaissance world.