This edited collection offers the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as ...in guiding the tastes of book collectors.
This volume offers fifteen chapters written by leading specialists which explore the range of ways in which the book industry negotiated conflicts and controversies in the early modern European world.
This edited collection presents new research on the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, addressing themes such as the ...Reformation, the transmission of texts and the production and sale of printed books.
Lo ‘Universal Short Title Catalogue’ è una bibliografia ragionata collettiva che intende fornire una visione più completa possibile dell’editoria nei primi due secoli della tipografia. Quando fu ...inaugurato nel 2011, conteneva dati su 362.000 edizioni e 1.3 milioni di copie superstiti; nel 2017 il termine cronologico è stato esteso fino al 1650, così raddoppiando le dimensioni del contenuto dell’USTC. L’articolo descrive lo sviluppo del progetto dai suoi inizi e le metodologie adottate per la gestione dei dati, prima di soffermarsi su due iniziative in corso progettate dal gruppo di coordinamento scientifico del progetto. La prima si chiama ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Books’ ed è indirizzata alle biblioteche che intendono stimare la rarità dei propri esemplari. La seconda cerca di ricostruire la quantità di edizioni stampate nei primi decenni della tipografia ma di cui nessun esemplare ci è pervenuto: i libri perduti. Con l’applicazione delle nuove metodologie che si stanno sviluppando a St Andrews, questa iniziativa permetterà di accludere nel catalogo migliaia di antiche edizioni rimaste finora sconosciute.
This thesis is an examination of Catholic religious controversial publication in France between 1535 and 1572. Although this encompassed a period of great political and religious turmoil, the ...Catholic publications of these tears are comparatively under-researched. The publication of controversial writings has more commonly been associated with the period after the Edict of Nantes in 1598. This study seeks to address this gap in research by a quantitative assessment of the volume of Catholic controversial printing during the mid-sixteenth century and its broader place within the publishing industry. Religious controversy formed an important component of the religious book trade in the sixteenth century at a time when the print industry itself was in a process of reorientation. Many of the forms of religious controversy familiar in the seventeenth century would find their roots in the discourse of the sixteenth century. The first section of this study lays the groundwork for the analysis of the period 1535 to 1572. Chapter one looks at the beginnings of religious controversy in France and provides a brief overview of the market for religious print in the early sixteenth century. Chapter two builds on this analysis to chart the emergence and extent of Catholic responses to Lutherianism. Chapter three concentrates on the emergence of Reformed controversial writings and quantifies their output. The second section of this thesis presents a quantitative analysis of Catholic controversial works, Chapters four and five outline the contours of the book trade in France at the time. Chapter six assesses the volume of Catholic controversial literature produced and its relationship to the other genres. Chapter seven examines the printers and publishers who played a pivotal role in its production. Finally chapter eight examines the development of the genre with a typology of controversial literature investigating different approaches to such writing. A comparison with seventeenth century, pursued in the conclusion, draws out the lessons of the early development of a genre that was both critical to the defence of French Catholicism in the sixteenth century and the erosion of the privileged Huguenot minority in the decades after the Edict at Nantes. An appendix of all Catholic controversial editions printed between 1535 and 1572 is included. This formed the basis of the study and provides the first comprehensive catalogue of its kind. It features over 1,500 entries with numerous full bibliographic descriptions.
This thesis is an examination of Catholic religious controversial publication in France between 1535 and 1572. Although this encompassed a period of great political and religious turmoil, the ...Catholic publications of these tears are comparatively under-researched. The publication of controversial writings has more commonly been associated with the period after the Edict of Nantes in 1598. This study seeks to address this gap in research by a quantitative assessment of the volume of Catholic controversial printing during the mid-sixteenth century and its broader place within the publishing industry. Religious controversy formed an important component of the religious book trade in the sixteenth century at a time when the print industry itself was in a process of reorientation. Many of the forms of religious controversy familiar in the seventeenth century would find their roots in the discourse of the sixteenth century. The first section of this study lays the groundwork for the analysis of the period 1535 to 1572. Chapter one looks at the beginnings of religious controversy in France and provides a brief overview of the market for religious print in the early sixteenth century. Chapter two builds on this analysis to chart the emergence and extent of Catholic responses to Lutherianism. Chapter three concentrates on the emergence of Reformed controversial writings and quantifies their output. The second section of this thesis presents a quantitative analysis of Catholic controversial works, Chapters four and five outline the contours of the book trade in France at the time. Chapter six assesses the volume of Catholic controversial literature produced and its relationship to the other genres. Chapter seven examines the printers and publishers who played a pivotal role in its production. Finally chapter eight examines the development of the genre with a typology of controversial literature investigating different approaches to such writing. A comparison with seventeenth century, pursued in the conclusion, draws out the lessons of the early development of a genre that was both critical to the defence of French Catholicism in the sixteenth century and the erosion of the privileged Huguenot minority in the decades after the Edict at Nantes. An appendix of all Catholic controversial editions printed between 1535 and 1572 is included. This formed the basis of the study and provides the first comprehensive catalogue of its kind. It features over 1,500 entries with numerous full bibliographic descriptions.
At first glance, item no. 7196 of the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé would appear to be quite conventional. From the outside it is simply a large quarto volume bound in calfskin, whose ...contents would likely offer the reader nothing more than an example of one of the many early modern medical treatises in this library. Open the volume however and one discovers that such expectations are misplaced. The title page reads, Catalogus librorum bibliothecae quondam per-illustris ac generosi viri domini Engelberti Della Faille. It is in fact an auction catalogue for the sale of the library of a prominent noble
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