Episodes in the life of the early modern learned book / / Ian Maclean.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word ; Volume 84
• VerfasserIn: Maclean, Ian, 1945-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 84.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book , Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism of the history of publishing, academic institutions, journals, and the German book fairs whose evolution is mapped over the long seventeenth century. After a study of the activities of Italian book merchants up to 1621, the passage into print, both locally and internationally, of English and Italian medicine and 'new' science comes under scrutiny. The fate of humanist publishing is next illustrated in the figure of the Dutch merchant Andreas Frisius (1630-1675). The work ends with an analysis of the two monuments of the last phase of legal humanism: the Thesauruses of Otto (1725-44) and Gerard Meerman (1751-80)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1The Evolution of the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs and their Catalogues, 1564-1700 -- 1Law and Politics: Frankfurt, Leipzig, the Imperial Court and the Electorate of Saxony -- 2Procedures and Practices -- 3Unofficial Versions of Frankfurt Fair Catalogues -- 4The Evolving Intellectual Environment and the Disciplines -- 5Foreign Visitors and the Evolution of the Fairs -- 6Interpreting Schwetschke's Statistics -- 7Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1.1: The British Entries in Schwetschke and the Frankfurt and Leipzig Catalogues 1684-6, with their reviews in the Acta Eruditorum -- Appendix 1.2: The Woyd entry in 'Libri medici et chymici', A1704, D2v -- 2Italy and the heyday of the Frankfurt Fair, c. 1580-1620 -- 1Sources -- 2Ciotti at the Frankfurt Fair in 1587 -- 3The Emergence of the Printed Catalogue of Ultramontane Books -- 4Italy and the Frankfurt Fair in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: the Role of Consortia -- 5Some Major Clients and Their Desiderata -- 6An Interloper in the Export-import Market: Gaspare Bindoni il Giovane -- 7The Three Trade Catalogues of 1602: their Sources and Contents -- 8Postscript: the Decline of the Societas Veneta and Venetian Imports and Exports -- 9Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 2.1: Transcription of MPM Archief 964, ff. 49v-50r -- Appendix 2.2: Bindoni's Catalogue of 1601 -- Appendix 2.3: Titles Marked "novo" the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Robertum Meiettum prost[r]ant 203 -- Appendix 2.4: Items Marked as novi in the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Io. Baptistam Ciottum prostant 204 -- 3Publishers, Book Fairs, Academies, Journals: the Dissemination of English Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century -- 1The Status Quo Ante -- 2After the Thirty Years War -- 3The Advent of the Journals in Northern Europe -- 4The Journals in Latin Translation -- 5The English Latin Trade, at Home and Abroad -- 6English Medicine -- 7English Natural Philosophy -- 8Concluding Remarks -- 4Publishing Italian Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1661-1710 -- 1The de' Medici of Mid-seventeenth-century Florence and Their Scientific Clients -- 2Alessandro Marchetti (1633-1714) -- 3Francesco Redi (1626-97) -- 4Lorenzo Bellini (1643-1704) -- 5Marcello Malpighi (1628-94) -- 6Giorgio Baglivi (1668-1707) -- 7Concluding Remarks -- 5Andreas Fries (Frisius) of Amsterdam and the Search for a niche Market, 1664-75 -- 1Andreas and the Reader -- 2Andreas's Family Connections: Joan de la Noue and the Combi -- 3Andreas Frisius before His Publishing Career -- 4Bookseller-publishers, Their Financial Environment, and Their Networks -- 5The Frankfurt Fair in Andreas's Time -- 6Andreas as Bookseller -- 7Andreas as Publisher and His Purchasers -- 8The Material History of Andreas's Publications -- 9Antiquarianism -- 10Natural Philosophy and Medicine -- 11Three Anomalies -- 12The Aftermath -- 13Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 5.1: A Catalogue Raisonné of Andreas's Involvement in Publishing -- 6The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725-1780 -- 1Legal Humanism -- 2Law in the Book Market before the Thirty Years War -- 3The Latin Trade after 1650 and the Role of the Netherlands -- 4 Historia Literaria , the Republic of Letters, and Legal Humanist Authors -- 4.1The Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725-44) -- 5The Novus Thesaurus and Its Supplement (1751-1780) -- 6Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 6.1: The Contents of the Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725-6, 1735), the Novus Thesaurus Juris Civilis et Canonico (1751-3) and the Supplementum Novi Thesauri (1780) -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.