Ancient libraries and Renaissance humanism : : the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius / / by Thomas Hendrickson.

Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 265/20.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius
  • Lipsius Proteus : the career of a scholar in an age of strife
  • Library historiography before Lipsius
  • The De bibliothecis : title, structure, and purpose
  • Lipsius and his sources
  • Print history
  • Editorial principles
  • A note on the commentary
  • De bibliothecis: Text and translation
  • De bibliothecis: Commentary.