Seventeenth-Century Libraries

Robyn Adams (PhD, 2004) is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. Her recent publications have focused on book history and the history of libraries, particularly the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Jacqueline Glomski (PhD, 1985; MSLS, 1992) is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London. She is the co-editor of the volumes Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (2016) and Baroque Latinity (2023).

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Introduction: The Problems and Perspectives of Seventeenth-Century Libraries


 Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski





Part 1: Theory


1 Après Naudé: Seventeenth-Century Notions of the Scholarly Library


 Jacqueline Glomski





2 Placing and Disposing: Subject Classification in English Institutional Libraries, c.1600–1670


 Richard Foster





Part 2: Culture


3 Books, Booklists, and Materiality in the Early Modern Parisian Household: Evidence from the Minutier Central, 1580–1620


 Shanti Graheli





4 Priests’ Libraries in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic


 Jaap Geraerts





5 Networks of Influence: Donations to the Bodleian Library in the Early Seventeenth Century


 Robyn Adams





Part 3: Histories


6 Tracking a Burgundian Scattered Library: The Mourning Bindings of the Vireys of Chalon-sur-Saône


 Dominique Varry





7 Small-Format Books and Portable Sets: The Context of the Travelling Library of Charles I


 Francesca Galligan





8 ‘All My Best Bookes’: The Libraries of Dr Richard Busby and Dr John Pell


 Elizabeth Wells





Afterword: Mapping Seventeenth-Century Libraries, Digitally


 David Pearson and Clodagh Murphy





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