Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives (92) (Library of the Written Word / The Handpress World, 114)

✍ Scribed by Robyn Adams (editor), Jacqueline Glomski (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Eight studies (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) present key topics for understanding the theory and practice of library formation in the seventeenth century, both in Britain and on the Continent.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Problems and Perspectives of Seventeenth-Century Libraries
Part 1 Theory
Chapter 1 Après Naudé: Seventeenth-Century Notions of the Scholarly Library
Chapter 2 Placing and Disposing: Subject Classification in English Institutional Libraries, c.1600–1670
Part 2 Culture
Chapter 3 Books, Booklists, and Materiality in the Early Modern Parisian Household: Evidence from the Minutier Central, 1580–1620
Chapter 4 Priests’ Libraries in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Chapter 5 Networks of Influence: Donations to the Bodleian Library in the Early Seventeenth Century
Part 3 Histories
Chapter 6 Tracking a Burgundian Scattered Library: The Mourning Bindings of the Vireys of Chalon-sur-Saône
Chapter 7 Small-Format Books and Portable Sets: The Context of the Travelling Library of Charles I
Chapter 8 ‘All My Best Bookes’: The Libraries of Dr Richard Busby and Dr John Pell
Afterword: Mapping Seventeenth-Century Libraries, Digitally
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index