Documenting the Early Modern Book World : Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print

Malcolm Walsby

ISBN 10: 9004258892 / ISBN 13: 9789004258891

Published by Brill Okt 2013, 2013

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Documenting the Early Modern Book World : Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print
• Publisher: Brill Okt 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004258892
• ISBN 13: 9789004258891
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 165H x 33D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 165 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 839 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).