In order to survive, books in the Philippines have had to contend with multiple forces: the humid tropical climate, typhoons, floods, fires, earthquakes, termites, wars throughout the nation's ...colonial history. This fact is often raised in studies on the history of the book in the Philippines, but how and why the book survives in spite of such conditions has hardly been given attention. Such a lacuna in Philippine book history is what this study seeks to fill. It explores the survival of Philippine incunabula (books printed from 1593 to 1640), with a focus on the transformation from material object to cultural artifact that the book undergoes in the course of enduring through the centuries. This study examines the case of the Vocabulario de Iapon (Japanese vocabulary), with a particular interest in the copy in the Bernardo Mendel Collection at the Lilly Library of Indiana University. The Vocabulario de Iapon, which was printed in Manila in 1630, is both typical and unique among Philippine incunabula for the circumstances it saw from its publication to its survival. It has much to tell about publishing in the Philippines in the seventeenth century, the reception of books through the ages, and the culture of collecting in modern times.
My Own PRIVATE LIBRARY Wojcik, Tim
The Georgia library quarterly,
10/2016, Letnik:
53, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The author hadn't planned on a move. Still, there he was, looking at a pile of boxes as he began to sort out just where exactly was his personal library. He had labeled the boxes: fiction, biography, ...coffee table and picture books, kids' books, etc. But in the move, well, you know how it is when you are moving someone else. You just try to pick it up and put it down without breaking anything. Books, usually, are hard to break and so often are found at the bottom of a stack. So what paperbacks survived from the bookstore days? David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, and (oddly) Health Secrets of the Orient. And going back even further, he still have his Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from high school.
У раду су представљене најважније промене у сфери објављивања и штампања „књига“, које су се десиле током 16. и 17. века. Издаваштво и штампарство приказани су кроз преглед делатности знаменитих ...појединаца и група у различитим европским земљама, а упоредо је дат преглед нових носилаца информација: летака, памфлета, брошура те периодичних публикација, попут календара, алманаха, новина и часописа.Политичке, верске и културне промене, које су са собом донели јачање владарског апсолутизма, протестантизам, реформација, научна револуција и барок као уметнички правац, посматране су у овом раду из позиције историчара књиге, али и историчара библиотека. Пропадање манастирских збирки књига, које су током целог средњег века биле најзначајнији чувари писане баштине, развој краљевских колекција, универзитетских, специјалних и приватних библиотека богатих грађана, организација фондова, статус библиотекара и архитектура библиотека, представљени су тако да јасно сведоче о социјалној утемељености библиотечке делатности. Нарочито је истакнут значај текстова о уређењу библиотека који су се појавили у првој половини 17. века: они су доприносили ширењу знања о начину организације фондова, што је током следећих стотинак година довело до стварања савремених типова библиотека.
The engineer and entrepreneur Carlo Viganò (1904-1974) put together over time a collection of more than ten thousand volumes, including a set of around sixty manuscripts and several 15th and 16th ...century editions on a vast range of scientific subjects. In 1971 he donated his collection to the Department of Mathematical and Physical Science that had recently been established at the University of Brescia. Viganò was not only a collector but a scholar as well, and he was in contact with the most famous science historians of the time.
My Own PRIVATE LIBRARY Sinclair, Laura
The Georgia library quarterly,
01/2018, Letnik:
55, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
My first thought about writing this was, gosh, I am going to look smart! My mind immediately raced to all my beloved collections of books I had lovingly and meticulously gathered through college and ...graduate school. Aside from collecting them from my classes, during those years I also worked at Borders bookstore. Going against my original intentions of attaining a job, I barely made any money from my work there because I would use/abuse employee-appreciation discount days to bring bags and bags of books home. My summers during those years were spent working, lounging at the neighborhood pool, and staying up very late at night reading my treasures. It was total heaven for a bookworm! My mind wanders back to the titles from those years—my collections of Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters (Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite book), voluminous Norton anthologies, books dealing with the history of science, and so forth.
Preface O'Gorman, James F
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,
03/2016, Letnik:
106, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
There are published studies of the careers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Mills, and Alexander Jackson Davis, but none (although there are scattered articles, and some doctoral ...dissertations sit in archives) on Asher Benjamin, Ithiel Town, John Haviland, James Bogardus, John Notman, Alexander Parris, and others.
The books from the household collection of Helena Dąbczańska (1863–1956), a famous Lviv collector, are currently preserved in the Central Library of the Academy of Fine Arts and in the Jagiellonian ...Library in Cracow. The research into the collection has identified portions of the collection that previously were part of libraries collected in aristocratic households. The current article discusses 90 books that were once in possession of Kordula Potocka (1764 – after 1837), wife of voivode of Bełz, Teodor Potocki (1730–1812). The collection is an example of a library created at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, at a time when upper-class women were increasingly interested in books: they read intensely and created private libraries, in which love stories were being gradually replaced by a variety of fiction and non-fiction. Kordula Potocka’s choice of books reflects cultural developments of the period. As a lady of fashion and a powerful magnate’s wife, she would read books in French published abroad. Like other private libraries during the period of the Partitions of Poland, Potocka’s collection is dominated by works of fiction and books on history. In the former category, many varieties of the novel are represented. The novel, a genre previously despised during the Enlightenment period, in Potocka’s time was developing and gaining wider readership. The novels gathered by Potocka are an accurate representation of this literary development. Another vast category are books concerning events that occurred during Potocka’s lifetime. The chronological range of the collection, the authors’ periods of activity and the presence of many first editions suggest that the volumes in this category are for the most part contemporaneous with current affairs of the period.
Pred začetkom raziskovanja zasebne knjižnice, njene vsebine in profila si je treba odgovoriti na nekaj vprašanj. Ali je knjige zbiral posameznik za svoja raziskovanja oziroma literarna snovanja ali ...pa je rasla skozi več rodov? Kateri zgodovinski dokumenti so ohranjeni o knjižnici in ali je mogoče danes identificirati določene knjige, sklope ali celo celotne fonde nekdanjih bibliotek v kateri izmed javnih ustanov? Ob raziskovanju več bibliotek, ki so bile nekoč last pomembnih posameznikov, se lahko pokaže, kako so včasih pavšalne ocene, npr. »vse knjige so danes v muzeju, knjižnici«, zavajajoče in tako se je treba pri raziskavi vrniti k primarnim virom. Problematika je podprta z rezultati raziskav o nekaterih zgodovinskih zasebnih bibliotekah na Slovenskem.
The author's private library is a nostalgic collection of interests scattered among three places: his office, his home, and his parents’ home. Although he rarely re-read his books, he has an ...emotional attachment to them, and he resists letting them go. Now, he buys fewer books due to financial and space considerations. Most of his new items are those that were not available through the library or were given to him as gifts. In this age of streaming content he has been reflecting on what he wants to own. He enjoys content through subscribed or free services, but he rarely thinks of buying them for a collection. Purchasing digital files of films, music, or books does not have the same satisfying feeling for him as owning the physical items. E-books are convenient for looking up information or reading a chapter, but he dislikes reading a whole book on a device.
The scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through an in-depth study of the library of the Reverend James Nairn (1629-1678), the biggest collection ...formed in this period for which we have detailed records.
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