Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives

Author:   Robyn Adams ,  Jacqueline Glomski
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   114
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Pages:   326
Publication Date:   14 June 2023
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Author:   Robyn Adams ,  Jacqueline Glomski
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   114
Weight:   0.656kg
ISBN:  

9789004429802


ISBN 10:   9004429808
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   14 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Problems and Perspectives of Seventeenth-Century Libraries  Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski Part 1: Theory 1 Après Naudé: Seventeenth-Century Notions of the Scholarly Library  Jacqueline Glomski 2 Placing and Disposing: Subject Classification in English Institutional Libraries, c.1600–1670  Richard Foster Part 2: Culture 3 Books, Booklists, and Materiality in the Early Modern Parisian Household: Evidence from the Minutier Central, 1580–1620  Shanti Graheli 4 Priests’ Libraries in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic  Jaap Geraerts 5 Networks of Influence: Donations to the Bodleian Library in the Early Seventeenth Century  Robyn Adams Part 3: Histories 6 Tracking a Burgundian Scattered Library: The Mourning Bindings of the Vireys of Chalon-sur-Saône  Dominique Varry 7 Small-Format Books and Portable Sets: The Context of the Travelling Library of Charles I  Francesca Galligan 8 ‘All My Best Bookes’: The Libraries of Dr Richard Busby and Dr John Pell  Elizabeth Wells Afterword: Mapping Seventeenth-Century Libraries, Digitally  David Pearson and Clodagh Murphy Bibliography Illustrations Index

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Robyn Adams (PhD, 2004) is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. Her recent publications have focused on book history and the history of libraries, particularly the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Jacqueline Glomski (PhD, 1985; MSLS, 1992) is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. She is the co-editor of the volumes Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (2016) and Baroque Latinity (2023).

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