Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print

Contents: 

• Book Lists and Their Meaning

PART I: UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

• Learned Benefaction: Science, Civility and Donations of Books and Instruments to the Bodleian Library before 1605
• The Legacy of Josephus Justus Scaliger in Leiden University Library Catalogues, 1609-1716 

PART II: INDIVIDUALS

• Books Fit for a Portuguese Queen: The Lost Library of Catherine of Austria and the Milan Connection (1540)
• The Library of the Breton Jurist and Historian Bertrand d'Argentré in 1582
• The Heinsiana-Almost a Seventeenth-Century Universal Short Title Catalogue;
• Printed Autobibliographies from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 

PART III: SOCIAL GROUPS 

• The Market for Books in Early Modern Norway: The Case of Juridical Literature
• The Book Inventories of Servite Authors and the Survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index in Counter-Reformation Italy
• Pastoral Care and Cultural Accuracy: Book Collections of Secular Clergy in Three Southern Italian Dioceses

PART IV: THE BOOKTRADE 

• The Book Inventory of the Sixteenth-Century Krakow Bookbinder, Maciej Przywilcki
• Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists;
• The Inventory of Beatriz Pacheco's Bookshop (Santiago De Compostela, 1563)
• Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484-1488