Documenting the Early Modern Book World

Malcolm Walsby is a lecturer at the University of Rennes II and co-director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He is the author of The Counts of Laval (Ashgate, 2007) and The Printed Book in Brittany (1480-1600) (Brill, 2011).Natasha Constantinidou is a lecturer in early modern European history at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests lie in the intellectual and cultural milieus of early modern Europe. She is the author of Responses to Religious Divisions, c.1580-1620 (Ashgate, 2013).

A "teeming exploration of early modern book inventories [...] both precise and expansive". Adam Smyth, University of Oxford. In: Times Literary Supplement, August 15, 2014 (p. 27)."This is an excellent collection – geographically varied, and yet each piece absolutely precise”. William Poole, University of Oxford. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1432-1433.“Documenting the Early Modern Book World explores how early modern book lists can be used for scholarship. Malcolm Walsby, ‘Book Lists and Their Meaning’ (1-28), provides an excellent overview of these resources and how they might be used for future research.”Bryan Brazeau, New York University. In: The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol. 75 (2013), p. 311. “This excellent essay collection presents a vast array of resources and methodologies for the study of booklists. Strikingly, it also exhibits the stimulating human stories that emerge from these ostensibly sober documents. Its protagonists include bigamists on the run, illicit eel importers, the book thief Suffridus Sistinus, the sly debt collector Isaac Vossius, and Paul Felgenhauer, who believed he could interpret scripture infallibly (although even he admitted that his prophecy of a millennium of peace for Bohemia, to start in 1623, needed rethinking) … This is a deeply researched and carefully edited volume, and several of the lists under discussion are usefully reproduced as appendices to articles. Documenting the Early Modern Book World leaves no doubt about the surprising variety of uses to which booklists can be put, both by their original compilers and by scholars today. It will become an essential point of reference for historians of European book collections.”Daniel Starza Smith, University of Oxford. In: Library & Information History, Vol. 30, No. 3 (August 2014), pp. 222-224.“The articles, which, in their clarity and thoroughness are uniformly excellent, show the relevance of book catalogues as primary source material for most aspects of historical bibliography […] In addition to the quality of its intellectual content, the book contains much primary source material which is well presented.”Brandon High, King’s College London. In: CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Newsletter, Issue 99 (March 2015), pp. 14-15.

• Notes on Contributors List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations 1. Book Lists and Their Meaning Malcolm WalsbyPART I: UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES2. Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605 Alexander Marr3. The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609–1716 Kasper van OmmenPART II: INDIVIDUALS4. Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540) Kevin M. Stevens5. The Library of the Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d’Argentré in 1582Malcolm Walsby6. The Heinsiana—Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue John A. Sibbald7. Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesJürgen Beyer and Leigh T.I. PenmanPART III: SOCIAL GROUPS8. The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature Gina Dahl9. The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter-Reformation Italy Flavia Bruni10. Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses Andrea OttonePART IV: THE BOOKTRADE11. The Book Inventory of the Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba12. Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists Shanti Graheli13. The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco’s Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563) Benito Rial Costas14. Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484–1488 Cristina Dondi and Neil HarrisIndex