Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-42980-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 114, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

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

Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives presents key topics for understanding the theory and practice of library formation in the seventeenth century, both in Britain and on the Continent. In eight studies (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) based on meticulous research, the volume addresses questions of acquisition, classification, administration and access, spatial arrangement and furniture, networks of collecting, and dispersal of libraries, and serves as an introduction to methods of investigating these themes. Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives is a landmark volume that confronts outstanding issues of cultural and intellectual history by synthesizing recent research on the growth of libraries during a period that was crucial for the development of modern knowledge management, historical attitudes, and material culture.

Contributors: Robyn Adams, Richard Foster, Francesca Galligan, Jaap Geraerts, Jacqueline Glomski, Shanti Graheli, Clodagh Murphy, David Pearson, Dominique Varry, and Elizabeth Wells.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Robyn

Glomski, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Antiquitäten, Sammelobjekte
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Problems and Perspectives of Seventeenth-Century Libraries

Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski

Part 1: Theory

1 Après Naudé: Seventeenth-Century Notions of the Scholarly Library

Jacqueline Glomski

2 Placing and Disposing: Subject Classification in English Institutional Libraries, c.1600–1670

Richard Foster

Part 2: Culture

3 Books, Booklists, and Materiality in the Early Modern Parisian Household: Evidence from the Minutier Central, 1580–1620

Shanti Graheli

4 Priests’ Libraries in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Jaap Geraerts

5 Networks of Influence: Donations to the Bodleian Library in the Early Seventeenth Century

Robyn Adams

Part 3: Histories

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

Dominique Varry

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

Francesca Galligan

8 ‘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

Bibliography

Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robyn Adams (PhD, 2004) is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. Her recent publications have focused on book history and the history of libraries, particularly the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Jacqueline Glomski (PhD, 1985; MSLS, 1992) is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. She is the co-editor of the volumes Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (2016) and Baroque Latinity (2023).