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The Dundee Bibliotheck, 1599â1724
A Study, with an Edition of the 1724 Shelf-list
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 146
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 146
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This book reintroduces a lost Scottish library, that of the burgh of Dundee, founded in the late sixteenth century, but destroyed by fire in 1841. Happily, a catalogue of 1724 has survived, and this edited document forms the centre of this study. A handful of books were also rescued from the flames, and they are presented here. Evidence from council minutes, testaments, legal documents, and the books themselves is all drawn together to reconstruct this landmark but lost institution and its donors. This book also offers a comparative study of Scottish libraries in the period.
William Poole is Fellow and Tutor in English, Senior Tutor, and Fellow Librarian of New College, Oxford. He is a literary and intellectual historian and bibliographer, and has published many monographs, articles, and translations, including most recently A Dundee Physician in the Republic of Letters: The Life, Letters, and Poems of Peter Goldman (1587/8-1628) (Boydell, 2024).
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Note on Transcriptions
âIntroduction
â1âThe Fire
â2âOrigins and Development of the Library
â3âLayout of the Library
â4âAnalysis of the Library
â5âContextualising the Library
â6âSurvivals
Catalogue of Books in the Library of Dundie
âCatalogue of Books in theLibrary of Dundie
Appendix 1: Johnsonâs Notes on Donors and Provenances
Appendix 2: the 1636 Orders for the Library
Appendix 3: Ministers of the First, Second, and Third Charges of St Maryâs, 1558â1716
Appendix 4: Table of Printing Cities Represented in the Library
Index of Authors in Catalogue
General Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Note on Transcriptions
âIntroduction
â1âThe Fire
â2âOrigins and Development of the Library
â3âLayout of the Library
â4âAnalysis of the Library
â5âContextualising the Library
â6âSurvivals
Catalogue of Books in the Library of Dundie
âCatalogue of Books in theLibrary of Dundie
Appendix 1: Johnsonâs Notes on Donors and Provenances
Appendix 2: the 1636 Orders for the Library
Appendix 3: Ministers of the First, Second, and Third Charges of St Maryâs, 1558â1716
Appendix 4: Table of Printing Cities Represented in the Library
Index of Authors in Catalogue
General Index
Academic bibliographers, historians of the book and of libraries, intellectual historians, scholars of Scottish history, antiquaries of Dundee and Angus, doctoral and postdoctoral students of such areas. Keywords are: bibliography, library history, book history, history of collections, Scottish history, Angus history, vanished or destroyed libraries.