Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44007-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 818 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book, Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism of the history of publishing, academic institutions, journals, and the German book fairs whose evolution is mapped over the long seventeenth century. After a study of the activities of Italian book merchants up to 1621, the passage into print, both locally and internationally, of English and Italian medicine and ‘new’ science comes under scrutiny. The fate of humanist publishing is next illustrated in the figure of the Dutch merchant Andreas Frisius (1630–1675). The work ends with an analysis of the two monuments of the last phase of legal humanism: the Thesauruses of Otto (1725–44) and Gerard Meerman (1751–80).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maclean, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction

1The Evolution of the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs and their Catalogues, 1564–1700

1Law and Politics: Frankfurt, Leipzig, the Imperial Court and the Electorate of Saxony

2Procedures and Practices

3Unofficial Versions of Frankfurt Fair Catalogues

4The Evolving Intellectual Environment and the Disciplines

5Foreign Visitors and the Evolution of the Fairs

6Interpreting Schwetschke’s Statistics

7Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1.1: The British Entries in Schwetschke and the Frankfurt and Leipzig Catalogues 1684–6, with their reviews in the Acta Eruditorum

Appendix 1.2: The Woyd entry in ‘Libri medici et chymici’, A1704, D2v

2Italy and the heyday of the Frankfurt Fair, c. 1580–1620

1Sources

2Ciotti at the Frankfurt Fair in 1587

3The Emergence of the Printed Catalogue of Ultramontane Books

4Italy and the Frankfurt Fair in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: the Role of Consortia

5Some Major Clients and Their Desiderata

6An Interloper in the Export-import Market: Gaspare Bindoni il Giovane

7The Three Trade Catalogues of 1602: their Sources and Contents

8Postscript: the Decline of the Societas Veneta and Venetian Imports and Exports

9Concluding Remarks

Appendix 2.1: Transcription of MPM Archief 964, ff. 49v–50r

Appendix 2.2: Bindoni’s Catalogue of 1601

Appendix 2.3: Titles Marked “novo” the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Robertum Meiettum prost[r]ant 203

Appendix 2.4: Items Marked as novi in the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Io. Baptistam Ciottum prostant 204

3Publishers, Book Fairs, Academies, Journals: the Dissemination of English Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

1The Status Quo Ante

2After the Thirty Years War

3The Advent of the Journals in Northern Europe

4The Journals in Latin Translation

5The English Latin Trade, at Home and Abroad

6English Medicine

7English Natural Philosophy

8Concluding Remarks

4Publishing Italian Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1661–1710

1The de’ Medici of Mid-seventeenth-century Florence and Their Scientific Clients

2Alessandro Marchetti (1633–1714)

3Francesco Redi (1626–97)

4Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704)

5Marcello Malpighi (1628–94)

6Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707)

7Concluding Remarks

5Andreas Fries (Frisius) of Amsterdam and the Search for a niche Market, 1664–75

1Andreas and the Reader

2Andreas’s Family Connections: Joan de la Noue and the Combi

3Andreas Frisius before His Publishing Career

4Bookseller-publishers, Their Financial Environment, and Their Networks

5The Frankfurt Fair in Andreas’s Time

6Andreas as Bookseller

7Andreas as Publisher and His Purchasers

8The Material History of Andreas’s Publications

9Antiquarianism

10Natural Philosophy and Medicine

11Three Anomalies

12The Aftermath

13Concluding Remarks

Appendix 5.1: A Catalogue Raisonné of Andreas’s Involvement in Publishing

6The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725–1780

1Legal Humanism

2Law in the Book Market before the Thirty Years War

3The Latin Trade after 1650 and the Role of the Netherlands

4Historia Literaria, the Republic of Letters, and Legal Humanist Authors

4.1The Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725–44)

5The Novus Thesaurus and Its Supplement (1751–1780)

6Concluding Remarks

Appendix 6.1: The Contents of the Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725–6, 1735), the Novus Thesaurus Juris Civilis et Canonico (1751–3) and the Supplementum Novi Thesauri (1780)

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Maclean, D. Phil. (1971) is an emeritus professor of the University of Oxford and an honorary professor of the University of St Andrews. His many publications on early modern history and thought include Learning and the Market Place (Brill, 2009).