Seventeenth-Century Libraries : : Problems and Perspectives.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word Series ; v.114
• Author: Adams, Robyn.
• TeilnehmendeR: Glomski, Jacqueline.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the Written Word Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 pages)

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

Intro -- 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.