Documenting the early modern book world : : inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print / / edited by Malcolm Walsby and Natasha Constantinidou.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
• TeilnehmendeR: Constantinidou, Natasha.; Walsby, Malcolm.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word. Handpress world.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Book Lists and Their Meaning /; Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605 /; The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609–1716 /; Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540) /; The Library of the Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d’Argentré in 1582 /; The Heinsiana—Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue /; Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries /; The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature /; The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter- Reformation Italy /; Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses /; The Book Inventory of the Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki /; Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists /; The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco’s Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563) /; Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484–1488 /; Index /
• ISBN: 9004258906
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Malcolm Walsby and Natasha Constantinidou.

Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print created an additional and valuable resource: book lists. Printers made lists of their available stock; owners catalogued their libraries; religious authorities drew up indexes of banned books; assessors inventoried collections and stock as part of the settlement of estates, or legal proceedings. This volume examines an array of such lists taken from a variety of European countries during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The result is a wide-ranging re-evaluation of one of the most interesting and underused resources for early modern book history. Contributors include: Jürgen Beyer, Flavia Bruni, Gina Dahl, Cristina Dondi, Shanti Graheli, Neil Harris, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Alexander Marr, Kasper van Ommen, Andrea Ottone, Leigh T.I. Penman, Benito Rial Costas, John Sibbald, Kevin M. Stevens and Malcolm Walsby.