Documenting the early modern book world : inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print / edited by Malcolm Walsby and Natasha Constantinidou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Constantinidou, Natasha.

Walsby, Malcolm.

Series:

Library of the written word. Handpress world.

Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bibliography--Europe--History.

Bibliography.

Book collecting--Europe--History.

Book collecting.

Book industries and trade--Europe--History.

Book industries and trade.

Booksellers' catalogs--Europe--History.

Booksellers' catalogs.

Early printed books--Europe--Catalogs--History.

Early printed books.

Library catalogs--Europe--History.

Library catalogs.

Private libraries--Europe--History.

Private libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Alexander Marr, Kasper van Ommen, Andrea Ottone, Leigh T.I. Penman, Benito Rial Costas, John Sibbald, Kevin M. Stevens and Malcolm Walsby.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Malcolm Walsby and Natasha Constantinidou

Book Lists and Their Meaning / Malcolm Walsby

Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605 / Alexander Marr

The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609–1716 / Kasper van Ommen

Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540) / Kevin M. Stevens

The Library of the Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d’Argentré in 1582 / Malcolm Walsby

The Heinsiana—Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue / John A. Sibbald

Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Jürgen Beyer and Leigh T.I. Penman

The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature / Gina Dahl

The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter- Reformation Italy / Flavia Bruni

Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses / Andrea Ottone

The Book Inventory of the Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba

Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists / Shanti Graheli

The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco’s Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563) / Benito Rial Costas

Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484–1488 / Cristina Dondi and Neil Harris

Index / Malcolm Walsby and Natasha Constantinidou.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-25890-6

OCLC:

862050323

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004258907 DOI