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Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 84
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 84
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In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book, Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism of the history of publishing, academic institutions, journals, and the German book fairs whose evolution is mapped over the long seventeenth century. After a study of the activities of Italian book merchants up to 1621, the passage into print, both locally and internationally, of English and Italian medicine and ‘new’ science comes under scrutiny. The fate of humanist publishing is next illustrated in the figure of the Dutch merchant Andreas Frisius (1630–1675). The work ends with an analysis of the two monuments of the last phase of legal humanism: the Thesauruses of Otto (1725–44) and Gerard Meerman (1751–80).
Ian Maclean, D. Phil. (1971) is an emeritus professor of the University of Oxford and an honorary professor of the University of St Andrews. His many publications on early modern history and thought include Learning and the Market Place (Brill, 2009).
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1The Evolution of the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs and their Catalogues, 1564–1700
1Law and Politics: Frankfurt, Leipzig, the Imperial Court and the Electorate of Saxony
2Procedures and Practices
3Unofficial Versions of Frankfurt Fair Catalogues
4The Evolving Intellectual Environment and the Disciplines
5Foreign Visitors and the Evolution of the Fairs
6Interpreting Schwetschke’s Statistics
7Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1.1: The British Entries in Schwetschke and the Frankfurt and Leipzig Catalogues 1684–6, with their reviews in the Acta Eruditorum
Appendix 1.2: The Woyd entry in ‘Libri medici et chymici’, A1704, D2v
2Italy and the heyday of the Frankfurt Fair, c. 1580–1620
1Sources
2Ciotti at the Frankfurt Fair in 1587
3The Emergence of the Printed Catalogue of Ultramontane Books
4Italy and the Frankfurt Fair in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: the Role of Consortia
5Some Major Clients and Their Desiderata
6An Interloper in the Export-import Market: Gaspare Bindoni il Giovane
7The Three Trade Catalogues of 1602: their Sources and Contents
8Postscript: the Decline of the Societas Veneta and Venetian Imports and Exports
9Concluding Remarks
Appendix 2.1: Transcription ofMPM Archief 964, ff. 49v–50r
Appendix 2.2: Bindoni’s Catalogue of 1601
Appendix 2.3: Titles Marked “novo” the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Robertum Meiettum prost[r]ant 203
Appendix 2.4: Items Marked as novi in the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Io. Baptistam Ciottum prostant 204
3Publishers, Book Fairs, Academies, Journals: the Dissemination of English Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
1The Status Quo Ante
2After the Thirty Years War
3The Advent of the Journals in Northern Europe
4The Journals in Latin Translation
5The English Latin Trade, at Home and Abroad
6English Medicine
7English Natural Philosophy
8Concluding Remarks
4Publishing Italian Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1661–1710
1The de’ Medici of Mid-seventeenth-century Florence and Their Scientific Clients
2Alessandro Marchetti (1633–1714)
3Francesco Redi (1626–97)
4Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704)
5Marcello Malpighi (1628–94)
6Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707)
7Concluding Remarks
5Andreas Fries (Frisius) of Amsterdam and the Search for a niche Market, 1664–75
1Andreas and the Reader
2Andreas’s Family Connections: Joan de la Noue and the Combi
3Andreas Frisius before His Publishing Career
4Bookseller-publishers, Their Financial Environment, and Their Networks
5The Frankfurt Fair in Andreas’s Time
6Andreas as Bookseller
7Andreas as Publisher and His Purchasers
8The Material History of Andreas’s Publications
9Antiquarianism
10Natural Philosophy and Medicine
11Three Anomalies
12The Aftermath
13Concluding Remarks
Appendix 5.1: A Catalogue Raisonné of Andreas’s Involvement in Publishing
6The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725–1780
1Legal Humanism
2Law in the Book Market before the Thirty Years War
3The Latin Trade after 1650 and the Role of the Netherlands
4Historia Literaria, the Republic of Letters, and Legal Humanist Authors
4.1The Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725–44)
5The Novus Thesaurus and Its Supplement (1751–1780)
6Concluding Remarks
Appendix 6.1: The Contents of the Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725–6, 1735), the Novus Thesaurus Juris Civilis et Canonico (1751–3) and the Supplementum Novi Thesauri (1780)
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1The Evolution of the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs and their Catalogues, 1564–1700
1Law and Politics: Frankfurt, Leipzig, the Imperial Court and the Electorate of Saxony
2Procedures and Practices
3Unofficial Versions of Frankfurt Fair Catalogues
4The Evolving Intellectual Environment and the Disciplines
5Foreign Visitors and the Evolution of the Fairs
6Interpreting Schwetschke’s Statistics
7Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1.1: The British Entries in Schwetschke and the Frankfurt and Leipzig Catalogues 1684–6, with their reviews in the Acta Eruditorum
Appendix 1.2: The Woyd entry in ‘Libri medici et chymici’, A1704, D2v
2Italy and the heyday of the Frankfurt Fair, c. 1580–1620
1Sources
2Ciotti at the Frankfurt Fair in 1587
3The Emergence of the Printed Catalogue of Ultramontane Books
4Italy and the Frankfurt Fair in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century: the Role of Consortia
5Some Major Clients and Their Desiderata
6An Interloper in the Export-import Market: Gaspare Bindoni il Giovane
7The Three Trade Catalogues of 1602: their Sources and Contents
8Postscript: the Decline of the Societas Veneta and Venetian Imports and Exports
9Concluding Remarks
Appendix 2.1: Transcription of
Appendix 2.2: Bindoni’s Catalogue of 1601
Appendix 2.3: Titles Marked “novo” the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Robertum Meiettum prost[r]ant 203
Appendix 2.4: Items Marked as novi in the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Io. Baptistam Ciottum prostant 204
3Publishers, Book Fairs, Academies, Journals: the Dissemination of English Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
1The Status Quo Ante
2After the Thirty Years War
3The Advent of the Journals in Northern Europe
4The Journals in Latin Translation
5The English Latin Trade, at Home and Abroad
6English Medicine
7English Natural Philosophy
8Concluding Remarks
4Publishing Italian Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1661–1710
1The de’ Medici of Mid-seventeenth-century Florence and Their Scientific Clients
2Alessandro Marchetti (1633–1714)
3Francesco Redi (1626–97)
4Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704)
5Marcello Malpighi (1628–94)
6Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707)
7Concluding Remarks
5Andreas Fries (Frisius) of Amsterdam and the Search for a niche Market, 1664–75
1Andreas and the Reader
2Andreas’s Family Connections: Joan de la Noue and the Combi
3Andreas Frisius before His Publishing Career
4Bookseller-publishers, Their Financial Environment, and Their Networks
5The Frankfurt Fair in Andreas’s Time
6Andreas as Bookseller
7Andreas as Publisher and His Purchasers
8The Material History of Andreas’s Publications
9Antiquarianism
10Natural Philosophy and Medicine
11Three Anomalies
12The Aftermath
13Concluding Remarks
Appendix 5.1: A Catalogue Raisonné of Andreas’s Involvement in Publishing
6The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in its Last Phase, 1725–1780
1Legal Humanism
2Law in the Book Market before the Thirty Years War
3The Latin Trade after 1650 and the Role of the Netherlands
4Historia Literaria, the Republic of Letters, and Legal Humanist Authors
4.1The Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725–44)
5The Novus Thesaurus and Its Supplement (1751–1780)
6Concluding Remarks
Appendix 6.1: The Contents of the Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725–6, 1735), the Novus Thesaurus Juris Civilis et Canonico (1751–3) and the Supplementum Novi Thesauri (1780)
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index
All interested in the early modern book, the evolution of academic institutions and publishing, the history of journals, and the interrelationship of books and intellectual life in the early modern period.