Huldrych Zwingli‘s Private Library

Urs B. Leu, Dr. phil. (1990) in History, University of Zürich, is Director of the Rare Book Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. He has written extensively on Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) and the Swiss reformation as well as the history of books.Sandra Weidmann is Librarian in the Rare Book Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Together with Urs B. Leu she published Heinrich Bullingers Privatbibliothek(TVZ, 2004) and Conrad Gessner’s Private Library (Brill, 2008).

“The introduction offers nothing less than a concise intellectual biography of Zwingli.”Emidio Campi, Zürich.“This is an exceptionally interesting book. The historical details it shares and the massive amount of material it so carefully sifts is astonishing. Readers of this volume will learn more about Zwingli and his world than from most other volumes on the great Reformer. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”Jim West, Ming Hua Theological College. In: Zwinglius Redivivus, 15 January 2019.“The study […] gives an excellent account of what can be gleaned about Zwingli as a reader, as a user of libraries, and about how he built up his own library.” John L. Flood, University of London. In: Library & Information History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2019), pp. 180-181."Nonostante la ricchezza, anzi la completezza della trattazione, lo svolgimento del volume si rivela tutt’altro che noioso, grazie anche alla limpida struttura della esposizione, alle illustrazioni, ed alle informazioni, non solo di per sé attraenti ma condite con riferimenti e citazioni che risultano stuzzicanti al fine di conoscere meglio sia la personalità del grande riformatore elvetico che alcuni tratti più singolari della sua umanità."Alfredo Serrai, Università degli Studi di Roma. in Bibliothecae.it 9.1

• PrefaceAbbreviations, Bibliographies and Library CataloguesIllustrations1 Zwingli and the World of Books1 Zwingli as Reader2 Zwingli as User of Libraries3 Building up a Library2 Contents of Zwingli’s Library1 Philology2 Theology3 History4 Science and Medicine3 Catalogue1 Imprints2 Manuscripts3 Catalogue A: Lost BooksLiteratureIndexes to the Catalogue