Collectors’ Knowledge: What Is Kept, What Is Discarded / Aufbewahren oder wegwerfen: wie Sammler entscheiden

Anja-Silvia Goeing is anniversary fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. She is currently preparing a book on practices of knowledge transfer at the Zurich lectorium in the sixteenth century. Her work includes studies on fifteenth-century biographies written about the Italian Humanist Vittorino da Feltre (1999; 2013).Anthony T. Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His interests comprise humanist scholarship and the writing of history in early modern times. Recent publications relating to this volume include a collaborative study of Isaac Casaubon as reader of Hebrew texts (2011) and a collection of early visualizations of timelines: Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time (2012).Paul Michel is Professor Emeritus of German Literature to 1700 at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the study of encyclopedias and the organization of knowledge. His latest monograph, Physikotheologie was published in 2008.

• Preface – VorwortAcknowledgements – DanksagungenINTRODUCTION – EINLEITUNGQuestions Framing the Research – Fragen an das Forschungsgebiet, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony T. Grafton, Paul Michel PHENOMENOLOGY – PHÄNOMENOLOGIEErzählen und Sammeln: einige phänomenologische Erwägungen, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann NON-WESTERN CONTEXTS – NICHTWESTLICHE KONTEXTECoining the Essentials: Arabic Encyclopaedias and Anthologies of the Pre-modern Period, Ulrich MarzolphDie Hoheit über die Erinnerung – Der Herrscher und das Erinnern in China, Marc Winter MIDDLE AGES AND TRANSITIONS TO EARLY MODERN TIMES – MITTELALTER UND ÜBERGÄNGE ZUR FRÜHEN NEUZEITLethe and ‘Delete’ – Discarding the Past in the Early Middle Ages: The case of Fredegar, Gerald SchwedlerChanging Representations of Botany in Encyclopaedias from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Iolanda Ventura‘I wasted time, and now doth time waste me’: Chronologers as Collectors, Anthony T. GraftonKollektionskataloge des Heiligen: Reliquiensammlungen im Bild, Livia CárdenasHumanistisches Weltwissen: Die Lectionum antiquarum libri des Caelius Rhodiginus, Jürgen LeonhardtEARLY MODERN TIMES – FRÜHE NEUZEITStoring to Know: Konrad Gessner’s De Anima and the Relationship between Textbooks and Citation Collections in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Anja-Silvia GoeingWissensdynamik an Hand von Lehrmitteln im katechetischen Unterricht, Jürgen OelkersGetilgtes Wissen: Gotthard Heideggers Über¬arbeitung der »Acerra philologica«, Paul MichelForming and Displaying a Collection in the Age of the Enlightenment: The Case of Esprit Calvet, Laurence Brockliss 19TH TO 21ST CENTURIES – 19.-21. JAHRHUNDERTFallstricke des Wissens: die Überlieferung der materiellen Kultur im Spiegel des Geschichtsbildes, François de Capitani (†)Museums by Commerce, Museums of Commerce, Museums for Commerce, Steven ConnKaum ein Wort: Tabuisierung von Inhalten und Fokussierung auf die Disziplin als Strategien der Wissensverarbeitung, Monika T. WickiThe Losses of the Music Collection of the Hessische Landesbibliothek in Darmstadt in 1944: A Case Study on the Failure to Safeguard Historical Library Holdings, Nicola SchneiderRESPONSEResponse, Stephen Bann EPILOGUE: THE PRESENCE OF MEMORY – EPILOG: DIE GEGENWART DER ERINNERUNGPublic Attic – ausgestellter speicher, Janet Grau Selected Bibliography – AuswahlbibliographiePicture and Table Index – Bild- und TabellennachweisNotes on Contributors – Über die BeiträgerName Index – Namensregister