Late medieval and early modern libraries : knowledge repositories, guardians of tradition and catalysts of change / edited by Outi Merisalo, Nataša Golob and Leonardo Magionami.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merisalo, Outi, editor.

Golob, Nataša, editor.

Magionami, Leonardo, editor.

Series:

Bibliologia (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 68.

Bibliologia ; volume 68

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Libraries--Europe--History.

Libraries.

Archives--Europe--History.

Archives.

Transmission of texts--Europe--History.

Transmission of texts.

Information behavior--Europe--History.

Information behavior.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Libraries--Europe--History--400-1400.

Physical Description:

341 pages : color illustrations, color map, charts, facsimiles ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2023]

Language Note:

10 contributions in English, 9 in Italian and 1 in French.

Summary:

"Libraries are an important factor in preserving and transmitting knowledge, thus contributing to historical continuity. The very concept of simultaneous availability of different texts transmitting possibly contradictory ideas, however, implies a great potential for engaging readers in new ways of thinking, thus promoting change. In addition to transmitting texts, historical libraries would often also be perceived as objects of material and spiritual value enhancing the prestige of their owner, e.g. contributing to the image-building of the political entities ruled by emperors, kings and princes. While the history of individual libraries of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have been treated in various detail, no large-scale study of the impact of Late Medieval and Early Modern libraries as knowledge repositories and guardians of tradition, on the one hand, and catalysts of change, on the other, seems to exist. This volume, which is inspired by the outcome of the final colloquium of the Lamemoli project held in Siena in March 2022, explores from the book historical point of view a series of both well-known and severely underexplored Late Medieval and Early Modern book collections in existence between c. 1250 and c. 1650, a period of intense mediatic, cultural, religious and political change in Western Europe. Covering an extensive geographical area from France and Italy to Central and Northern Europe, the collections are examined for both their material characteristics and contents, and their historical formation, in order to assess their roles in preserving and transmitting information as well as generating new ideas."-- Publisher's website.

"Libraries are an important factor in preserving and transmitting knowledge, thus contributing to historical continuity. The very concept of simultaneous availability of different texts transmitting possibly contradictory ideas, however, implies a great potential for engaging readers in new ways of thinking, thus promoting change. In addition to transmitting texts, historical libraries would often also be perceived as objects of material and spiritual value enhancing the prestige of their owner, e.g. contributing to the image-building of the political entities ruled by emperors, kings and princes. While the history of individual libraries of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have been treated in various detail, no large-scale study of the impact of Late Medieval and Early Modern libraries as knowledge repositories and guardians of tradition, on the one hand, and catalysts of change, on the other, seems to exist. This volume, which is inspired by the outcome of the final colloquium of the Lamemoli project held in Siena in March 2022, explores from the book historical point of view a series of both well-known and severely underexplored Late Medieval and Early Modern book collections in existence between c. 1250 and c. 1650, a period of intense mediatic, cultural, religious and political change in Western Europe. Covering an extensive geographical area from France and Italy to Central and Northern Europe, the collections are examined for both their material characteristics and contents, and their historical formation, in order to assess their roles in preserving and transmitting information as well as generating new ideas."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Outi Merisalo

Royal libraries : La dispersion de la Librairie de Charles V et Charles VI au XVe siècle (après 1424) / Marie-Hélène Tesnière ; Cultural perspectives on printed works in Sigismund II Augustus' library / Susanna Niiranen

Institutional libraries : Established libraries as a destination for newly published works in a manuscript culture : Medieval authors' perspectives / Jakub Kujawiński ; Studio e libri nella biblioteca francescana de Santa Croce in Firenze tra XIII e XIV secolo : nuovi apporti documentari / Simone Allegria ; Dalla Collectio Amploniana alla Collecion Collegii Portae Caeli : caratteri e problemi di una collezione in trasformazione / Iolanda Ventura ; Epulae litterarum : the Universal Latin Library of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) / Annet Den Haan ; Bishop Sigismund of Lamberg and his books / Nataša Golob ; Alla ricerca della biblioteca manoscritta del Collegio Romano dei Gesuiti / Francesca Niuita ; Omnia ex archivis et fide dignis monumentis collecta : Heinrich Eckstorm's Chronicon Walkenredense (1617) and the archiving of Monastic heritage in Brunswick-Lüneburg / Benjamin Wallura ; Archives against myths : the Hanover Historian Johann Heinrich Jung (1715-1799) and the Counts of Bentheim / Bernd Roling

Private libraries : Biblioteche di medicina : il caso dei traduttori dei medici greci (secoli XII-XIV) / Stephanie Fortuna ; Retorica, ortodossia, bibliofilia : l'influenza culturale della biblioteca pontificia nelle racoulte librarie di due ecclesiastici del Nord della Francia / Donatella Nebbiai ; Le biblioteche fiorentine pubbliche e private da salutati a Poliziano / Concetta Bianca ; Pico's Latin manuscripts : Palaeographical and codicological observations / Outi Merisalo ; Pico's multilingual pentateuch / Marianne Pade ; The significance of Pope Paul II and his library in the dissemination of Flavio Biondo's (1392-1463) decades / Taneli Puputti ; Reconstructing Pomponio Leto's library : a proposal / Patricia J. Osmond ; Bartolomeo del Bene, l'Accademia degli alterati, e il libro dell'anno (Citta del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. Lat. 8857) / Lorenzo Amato ; La biblioteca di Marquard Gude come deposito di saperi greci e latini : strategie di uso e rappresentazione: l'esempio dei Geoponica / Patrizia Carmassi

Abbreviations of Library Names

Index rerum

Index nominum

Index codicum incunabulorumque

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9782503605975

2503605974

OCLC:

1407391857

Publisher Number:

9782503605975

40032195477