Seventeenth-century libraries : problems and perspectives / edited by Robyn Adams, Jacqueline Glomski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Robyn, 1977- editor.

Glomski, Jacqueline L., 1951- editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 114

The handpress world ; volume 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--Europe--History--17th century.

Libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Contents:

Part 1: Theory

Après Naudé: Seventeenth-Century Notions of the Scholarly Library / Jacqueline Glomski

Placing and Disposing: Subject Classification in English Institutional Libraries, c.1600-1670 / Richard Foster

Part 2: Culture

Books, Booklists, and Materiality in the Early Modern Parisian Household: Evidence from the Minutier Central, 1580-1620 / Shanti Graheli

Priests' Libraries in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Jaap Geraerts

Networks of Influence: Donations to the Bodleian Library in the Early Seventeenth Century / Robyn Adams

Part 3: Histories

Tracking a Burgundian Scattered Library: The Mourning Bindings of the Vireys of Chalon-sur-Saône / Dominique Varry

Small-Format Books and Portable Sets: The Context of the Travelling Library of Charles I / Francesca Galligan

'All My Best Bookes': The Libraries of Dr. Richard Busby and Dr. John Pell / Elizabeth Wells

Afterword: Mapping Seventeenth-Century Libraries, Digitally / David Pearson and Clodagh Murphy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Seventeenth-century libraries

ISBN:

9789004429819 (electronic bk.)

9004429816 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99993729506

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