Documenting the Early Modern Book World

Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25889-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

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

Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print created an additional and valuable resource: book lists. Printers made lists of their available stock; owners catalogued their libraries; religious authorities drew up indexes of banned books; assessors inventoried collections and stock as part of the settlement of estates, or legal proceedings. This volume examines an array of such lists taken from a variety of European countries during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The result is a wide-ranging re-evaluation of one of the most interesting and underused resources for early modern book history.

Contributors include: Jürgen Beyer, Flavia Bruni, Gina Dahl, Cristina Dondi, Shanti Graheli, Neil Harris, Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba, Alexander Marr, Kasper van Ommen, Andrea Ottone, Leigh T.I. Penman, Benito Rial Costas, John Sibbald, Kevin M. Stevens and Malcolm Walsby.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walsby, Malcolm

Constantinidou, Natasha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations

1. Book Lists and Their Meaning
Malcolm Walsby

PART I: UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
2. Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605
Alexander Marr
3. The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609–1716
Kasper van Ommen

PART II: INDIVIDUALS
4. Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540)
Kevin M. Stevens
5. The Library of the Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d’Argentré in 1582
Malcolm Walsby
6. The Heinsiana—Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue
John A. Sibbald
7. Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Jürgen Beyer and Leigh T.I. Penman

PART III: SOCIAL GROUPS
8. The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature
Gina Dahl
9. The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter-Reformation Italy
Flavia Bruni
10. Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses
Andrea Ottone

PART IV: THE BOOKTRADE
11. The Book Inventory of the Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki
Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba
12. Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists
Shanti Graheli
13. The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco’s Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563)
Benito Rial Costas
14. Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484–1488
Cristina Dondi and Neil Harris

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Walsby is a lecturer at the University of Rennes II and co-director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He is the author of The Counts of Laval (Ashgate, 2007) and The Printed Book in Brittany (1480-1600) (Brill, 2011).

Natasha Constantinidou is a lecturer in early modern European history at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests lie in the intellectual and cultural milieus of early modern Europe. She is the author of Responses to Religious Divisions, c.1580-1620 (Ashgate, 2013).