Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830

Rindert Jagersma (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a book historian and bibliographer, specialised in the quantitative approach of the book trade of the Dutch Republic around 1700. In the ERC-funded MEDIATE project, he focuses on Dutch auction catalogues and their owners. Helwi Blom (PhD, Utrecht University) lectures in French (Radboud University) and Comparative Literature (Utrecht University). Her scholarly interests include chivalric romance, popular print, and book and library history. In the MEDIATE project, she studies early modern French private library catalogues. Evelien Chayes (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a researcher at the CNRS Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, Paris. She has published monographs and articles on the circulation of texts and book ownership during the Renaissance up to circa 1700. Ann-Marie Hansen (PhD, McGill University) is Project Manager of ‘Unlocking the Fagel Collection’ at the Library of Trinity College. Her research interests include early modern readers’ interactions with print, book collecting, and cataloguing practices, particularly with regards to Sammelbände.

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Goldmines or Minefields? Private Libraries and Their Documentation (1665–1830)

 Rindert Jagersma, Helwi Blom and Ann-Marie Hansen



Part 1: Private Libraries in Use

1 The Leufstabruk Catalogues: Life Narrative, Collector’s Rationale and Network of Charles de Geer

 Alex Alsemgeest



2 A Private Library as a Material History of the Book. Otto Thott’s Encyclopedic Library in Copenhagen

 Anders Toftgaard



3 A Collegiant Library in Rijnsburg at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: The Books of Jan Matthijsz van Drieborn (d. 1715)

 Paul G. Hoftijzer



4 Sharing Books in Eighteenth-Century Languedoc: The Library of Jean-François Séguier

 Laurence Brockliss



5 Private Libraries and the Second-Hand Book Trade in Early Modern Academia

The Case of Leuven University 1425–1797

 Pierre Delsaerdt



6 Book Auctions at the Reformed College of Debrecen (1743–1842)

 Róbert Oláh



Part 2: Uncovering Private Libraries in Archival Sources

7 Some Notes on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Library Archives as a Source for the Reconstruction of Private Libraries in Italy and the Vatican City

 Giliola Barbero



8 Book Ownership in Parma, Italy (1665–1830)

 Federica Dallasta



9 “For Don Antonio Meave I Leave the Three Folios of My Dear and Venerable Father Louis of Granada”: Tracing Books in the Archivo General de Notarías of Mexico City

 Andrea Reyes Elizondo



10 Private Libraries in New Spain: A Project in Progress

 Idalia García Aguilar and Alberto José Campillo Pardo



Part 3: Private Library Research in Regional Contexts

11 Mercury in the Republic of Letters: Private Libraries in Spanish Book Sales Catalogues (1660–1800)

 Pedro Rueda Ramírez and Lluís Agustí



12 Lists of Private Book Collections in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Royal Prussia, 1680–1830

 Michał Bajer



13 Surviving Records of Private Book Collections in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Transylvanian Principality between 1665 and 1830

 István Monok



14 From Extensive Learned Libraries to Modest Book Collections: Research on Danish Private Book Collections of the Long Eighteenth Century

 Jonas Thorup Thomsen



15 ‘The Cornerstone of Scholarship’: Library Catalogues in Late Imperial China

 Fan Wang



Part 4: Building a Field of Study

16 The Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE) Project: An Overview

 Joseph L. Black



17 Philosophers’ Private Libraries (1600–1800)

 Giovanna Granata



18 Private Libraries and the Material Evidence in Incunabula Database

 Marieke van Delft



19 “Ces documents rédigés à la hâte et imprimés avec assez peu de soin”. The Long Road to the Realisation of Book Sales Catalogues Online

 Otto S. Lankhorst



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