Documenting the Early Modern Book World

Notes on Contributors
List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations

1. Book Lists and Their Meaning
Malcolm Walsby

PART I: UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
2. Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605
Alexander Marr
3. The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609-1716
Kasper van Ommen

PART II: INDIVIDUALS
4. Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540)
Kevin M. Stevens
5. The Library of the Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d'Argentré in 1582
Malcolm Walsby
6. The Heinsiana-Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue
John A. Sibbald
7. Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Jürgen Beyer and Leigh T.I. Penman

PART III: SOCIAL GROUPS
8. The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature
Gina Dahl
9. The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter-Reformation Italy
Flavia Bruni
10. Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses
Andrea Ottone

PART IV: THE BOOKTRADE
11. The Book Inventory of the Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki
Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba
12. Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists
Shanti Graheli
13. The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco's Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563)
Benito Rial Costas
14. Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484-1488
Cristina Dondi and Neil Harris

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