Seventeenth-Century Libraries
Problems and Perspectives
Published on 14. June 2023
Book
Leather / fine binding
340 pages
978-90-04-42980-2 (ISBN)
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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.
Contributors: Robyn Adams, Richard Foster, Francesca Galligan, Jaap Geraerts, Jacqueline Glomski, Shanti Graheli, Clodagh Murphy, David Pearson, Dominique Varry, and Elizabeth Wells.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42980-2 (9789004429802)
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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).
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).
Content
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 Apres Naude: 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-Saone
?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
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Problems and Perspectives of Seventeenth-Century Libraries
?Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski
Part 1: Theory
1 Apres Naude: 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-Saone
?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