Classification in private library catalogues of the English Renaissance, 1500-1640 Alain Besson ...

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Illustrations
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1. The 1590 list of the books of Edward Barlow
(by permission of the Bodleian Library, Oxford) 259
2. The 1628 donations list of the books of Lucy
Russell, Countess of Bedford, and her mother
Anne Harington (by permission of the Master and
Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) 292
3. The 1640 inventory of the books of John
Deighton (by permission of the Gloucestershire
Record Office) 346
4. The l600 list of the books of Sir William
More (by permission of the Folger Shakespeare
Library, Washington, D.C.) 361
5. The l6l0 catalogue of the books of an
unknown owner (by permission of the Trustees
of the Winchilsea Settled Estates) 556
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Catalog e entries previously uni entifi d
Barlow no.29 first iterr: Gulielrnus Durandus, Bish p of Mend. Mentz), 1459.
etc.
Barlow no.139: A beautifLil baybush to shrowd us fr m th harpe sh hers of
sinne. 16 in 8s. 1589 (STC 1599)
Barlow no.146: Thomas Churchyard, The firste parte of Ch r hyarde hippes,
contayning twelve several labours. 4 in 8s. 15 etc. ST 5232- 233
Bedford no.208: Matthaeus de Afflictis, In utriusgue Sici ae, Nea p isgue
sanctiones, & constitutiones novissirna praelecti . Venetiis, 1588 Adams
A: 317)
Bernard no.104: Walter Donaldson, ?Moralis disciplinae mma. Hanovie, 161
8 (BN) . ?Or his Synopseos philosophiae moralis libri III. Darrnbstaci, 16 6.
8 (BN)
Bernard no.111:-
[111] 1 s Hauberi logica
(Johann Hauber, Erotemata dialectices. Tubingae, 1604. 8
More no.30: Cf. Guilleirnus Bernard, De sacrarurn literarum communicatlone.
Parisiis, 1547. 8
More no.226: French hoode, and newe apparel for ladies and gentlewomen.
London, 1551. 8
More no.239: Cf. Thucydides, The history; translated from French by Thomas
Nicolls. 1550. fol. (STC 24056)
More no.241: A booke of secrets : showing divers waies to prepare inke, and
colours. 1596. 4 (STO 3355)
More no.255: John Aylmer, An harborowe for faithfull and trewe subiectes,
agaynst the late blowne blaste (by John Knox] concerninge the government of
wemen. [1559] 4 (STC 1005-1006)
Paget no.248: Baptista Trovamala
Paget no.362: Symeori Ruytinck
Paget no.591: Cf. William Camden, Reges, reginae, nobiles & alii in Ecclesia
Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti . .. 1600 etc. (STC 4518-4520)
Paget no.634: Mutio Pansa
Paget no.643: Cf. Thomas Potts, The wonderfull discoverie of witches in the
countie of Lancaster. 1613 (1612). (STC 20138)
Paget no.889:-
[889] I < domestichi > donneschi diffetti.
Giuseppe Passi, I donneschi diffetti. Venetia, 1599 (Ital_ar STC)
Paget no.1009: Tarquinis Carpinetus
Paget no.1285: Giovanni Battista Segni
Paget no.1298: William Stallenge (STC 23138-23139
Paget no.1310: Traiano Boccalini
Paget no.1548: Giulio Cesare Capaccio
Rant no.105: Cf. Caspar Schwenckfeld of Greifenberg, Thesaurus pharrr euti'us
methcamentorum. Basileae, 1587
Rant no.142: Waither Herrnann Ryff, Medicinae theoricae et practicae or e
enchiridion. Argentorati, 1542. l2
Rant no.187: Andreas H ndorff, Theatrum hist ricum. Francofurti, 1 i .
Somrier no.67: C.W., Derarum & oblationum tabula : a tithing t.ble. 133 tc.
(STC 4323.6-4323.8
Somner no.68: Ayrrar Du Rivail, Civilis historiae D ri . .. libri V. I'. gJr1tia,
1527 et'.
Sortner no.70: Joannes Ld.lricus Zasius, Catal aus legum ntiquarJT. L-etia,
1555
Somner no.89: Petrus T ---si Ravennas, Compendium jri civilis. P r_ us,
[1530.
S rnner '-o.22 : Pu hard B n r ft, A survay [sic f i-he pr t d d h
discipline. 1593. 4 TC 1352
S rnner n .250: Cf. Pad. sarpi, The history of the quarrel of P pe .V
with -h state of Ver e; translated from Itali. n. 1 26 ST .1
Typographical errors
p.6 para.2 line 2: 'aye' should read 'have'
p.13 line 19: 'indentified' should read 'identified'
p.23 line 18: 'fulfill' should read 'fulfil'
p.26 line 3: 'if is there' should read 'if there is'
p.28 line 17: 'fulfill' should read 'fulfil'
p.39 para.1 line 17: 'libraries catalogues' should read 'library cata..ogues'
p.93 line 20: Colon should be replaced by open parenthesis
p.99 line 3: 'veterinaire' should read 'vtrinaire'
p.131 line 6 in quote: 'Spelimans ... mean' should read 'Spelmans ... meane'
p.132 line 2: 'according the' should read 'according to the'
p.148 last line of text: 'been' should read 'be'
p.169 line 7: 'was' should read 'way'
p.183 line 18: 'adopt' should read 'adapt'
p.198 lines 7,22, and p.199 lines 12,24: 'Scholemaster' sh uld b urer1ined
p.226 line 8 from bottom: 'covers' should read 'cover'
p.234 line 10: 'of by' should read 'of arrangement by'
p.235 line 12: 'libary' should read 'library'
p.239 line 1: 'interest' should read 'glance'
Bacon no.83: 'olt)' should read
Barlow no.31: 'l'esclarcissement' should read 'L'esclarcissement'
Barlow no.122: 'internorum' in the transcript should read 'internoru'
Bedford no.32: 'FumeW should read 'Fum&e'
Bedford no.66: 'Decades' should read 'Decadis'
Bedford no.77 and 88: 'Ptolomaeus' in note should read 'Ptolemaeus'
Bedford no.160: 'apprimo' should read 'apprimè'
Bernard no.6: 'Heidelberg' should read '[Heidelberg]'
Bernard no.20: Last line of note: delete 'Basileae 1571'
Bernard no.40: Line 3 of note: 'Man' should read 'Mans'
Deighton p.337 line 5: 'disposed' should read 'Disposed'
Deighton no.74: 'medicamentorum' in note should read 'Nedicamentorurr'
Deighton no.85: 'Schhenckij' should read 'Sckhenckij'
Deighton no.101: 'Francois' should read 'Franois'
More no.115: 'de monde' should read 'du rnonde'
More no.145: ' (STC 24864)' should read ' (STC 24684)'
Paget p.379 line 1: 'servant' should read 'soruant'
Paget p.379 line 3 of quotation from Ecclesiastes: 'us' should read 'vs'
Paget no.66: 'bishopes' should read 'Bishopes'
Paget no.164: 'Cristôval' should read 'C1ristdval'
Paget no.200: Delete 'and Henry'
Paget no.447: 'traictes du S.' should read 'traictes du Sr.'
Paget no.70 : 'L,er'nimo' should read 'Gronirno'
Paget no.747: 'Beat' should read 'Bgat'
Paget no.1257: Note should end with square bracket
Paget no.1341: 'unum' should read 'vnurn'
Paget no.1353: 'Antonius Volscus' should read 'Valentinus Volscs'
Paget no.1434: 'd'un' should read 'd'vn'
Rant no.80: 'ilamada' should read 'llamad
Rant no.109: 'lCSO' should read '1560'
Rant no.207: 'No 8 English edition' sh uld read 'N l6 Engli h __ n'
Somrier no.160: '275 below' should read '278 below'
Somner no.192: 'on no.190 above' should read 'on no.191 above'
S nner no.2 2: '1622' should read '1624'
p.535: dates Lf Anthony Higgin should be 'c.155 -1624'
Other correi r
p 5 hr 2 sr ld re d 'Lutheran... r'tnie 1.4-1 , no xi -_
.nstrument and cart graphical materials are li ted under tl .
'Ge metria' .d 'Mappes'.'
p.1 9 para.3: '-ivihis ... canonicus' sn uld Lead 'cvile . . . ..
p.298: Section 'Date and attnibuti n' lines .-3 sh ul rad '1
Greek-Latin ecu.ti n f the works f S Justin Martyr entry 25 -
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Acknowledgements
This study would not have been completed without the support and
encouragement given by many. In particular I should like to record
my gratitude to my supervisor, Dr Ia C. Mcllwaine, and to Professor
Andrew G. Watson, both of the School of Library, Information and
Archive Studies, University College London. Much encouragement and
advice also resulted from discussions with Dr Elisabeth S.
Leedham-Green (Cambridge University Library), Dr Dennis E. Rhodes
(British Library), Mr Richard Simpson (Warburg Institute) and
others too numerous to mention individually. I am also indebted to
my present employer, Miss J.S.Morris, Librarian of the Medical
College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, for the support she has given
me over the years.
Much use was made of the resources of various libraries and
collections of books and manuscripts. For those in London, my
thanks are due, in particular, to the staff of the libraries of
University College London, the University of London, the Library
Association, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg
Institute, the British Library, Lambeth Palace and the Public
Record Office. Outside London, help was obtained from the Bodleian
Library, Oxford; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Hatfield House;
the Northaxnptonshire Record Office; the County Record Office,
Gloucester; and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
Finally I do not think I will ever be able to repay my wife
and children for the patience and tolerance they have shown during
the completion of this study. I do not know whether I should thank
them for this, or ask their forgiveness for the countless hours
spent away from home.
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?bbreviations and definitions
Apart from common abbreviations such as e q., i.e., j,
ibid., viz., M.D., B.C., the number of abbreviations used
has been kept to a minimum. The common abbreviations for
the names of states of the United States of America (e.cT.
'Washington, D.C.' for 'Washington, District of
Columbia') have been used, mainly in the bibliographical
details of the books listed below and in the bibliography
on p.559-585.
1. Abbreviations of cata1oue entry numbers and citations
Specific entries in the catalogues discussed in the study
ave been referred to in the form 'Plutarch (Paget entry
669)' or, in a paragraph explicitly concerned with a
particular catalogue such as the Paget catalogue,
'Plutarch (entry 669)'. In both cases 'entry 669' refers
to entry 669 in the Paget catalogue transcribed in
Part II.
Citations (mainly in footnotes and in the
introductions to individual catalogues in Part II) have
been given in the form 'J.A. Smith (no.50)' or 'J.A.
Smith (no.50, p.10-20)', 'no.50' referring to the number
of the item in question in the bibliography of works
cited.
2. Other abbreviations
Adams Adams, Herbert Mayow (compiler). Catalogue of
books rrinted on the Continent of EurolDe.
1501-1600. in Cambridqe libraries. 2 vol.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1967.
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Barbier Barbier, Antoine Alexandre. Dictionnaire des
ouvrages arionvines. 3e ed. 1 revue et augmentée.
4 vol. Paris : P. Daffis, 1872-1879.
BL British Library. General catalocme of printed
books to 1975. 360 vol. London : dive Bingley
and K.G. Saur, 1979-1987. with: Supplement (6
vol. London : K.G. Saur, 1987-1988).
BN Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue énéra1 des
livres iinrimés de la Bibliothèaue Nationale
auteurs. 231 vol. Paris : Imprimerie
Nationale, 1897-1981.
c. circa.
Darlow Darlow, Thomas Herbert, and Moule, Horace
& Moule Frederick (compilers). Historical catalocme of
the printed editions of Ho].v Scripture in the
Library of the British and Foreign Bible
Society. 2 vol. in 4. London : Bible House,
1903-1911.
DNB Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Lee, Sir Sidney
(editors). The dictionary of national
bibliography. 63 vol. London : Smith, Elder
1885-1900. With: Errata (ibid., 1904) and
Supplement (3 vol. Ibid., 1901).
Durling Durling, Richard Jasper (compiler).
catalogue of sixteenth century printed
books in the National Library of Medicine.
Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine,
1967.
ed. edition.
floruit.
£1.
fol. folio or folios.
Index Au- Index Aureliensis : cataloaus librorum
reliensis sedecimo saeculo jinpressorum. Aureliae
Aquensis (Baden-Baden] : Valentin Koerner,
1965- • In progress.
Italian Marshall, Robert G. (editor). Short-title
STC catalog of books printed in Italy. and of
books in Italian printed abroad. 1501-1600,
held in selectec North-American libraries.
vol. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1970.
MS manuscript.
no. number or numbers.
NUC The national union catalogue, pre-1956
imprints •.. 754 vol. London : Mansell,
1968-1981.
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OED The Oxford Enlish dictionary ... 13 vol.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1933. with:
Su1ement (4 vol. Ibid., 1972-1976).
p. page or pages.
Poynter Poynter, Frederik Noel Lawrence (compiler).
A catal.oque of printed books in the welicome
Historical Medical Library. I. Books printed
before 1641. London : Welicome Historical
Medical Library, 1962.
sine loco.
s.n. sine nomine.
St Saint.
STC Pollard, Alfred William, and Redgrave, Gilbert
Richard (compilers). A short-title catalocrue
of books printed in EncTland. Scotland. &
Ireland. and of Enczlish bookes printed abroad,
1475-1640. 2nd ed., revised and enlarged. 2
vol. London: Bibliographical Society,
1976-1986 (vol.1, 1986; vol.2, 1976).
vol. volume or volumes.
3. Definitions
In most cases, it has seemed unnecessary to use terms in
a very narrow or restricted sense. The following
definitions are intended to clarify the uses made of
certain terms which are often given special meanings
elsewhere.
Book: in the context of the 16th and 17th centuries, any
bibliographic item, whether printed or manuscript, and
irrespective of the number of physical parts in which
it may have been written.
Cataloque: this term has been used here in the broadest
sense to include all types of book-lists, irrespective
of their size, purpose, function or arrangement.
Classed catalogues, shelf-lists, donations lists
(including bequests), post-mortem inventories,
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inventories of property, have been treated here as
various types of catalogues.
Classification (of books): the term 'classification'
ususally implies a more detailed and sophisticated
system of arrangement than is actually found in
Renaissance library catalogues, but it has been used
here for any form of bibliographic arrangement, however
basic and rudimentary it may seem to the modern eye. A
collection of books, or a library catalogue, may be
arranged by subject, by language or other criteria, all
of which come here under the umbrella of
classification.
Heading: the term used in a catalogue to describe the
contents of a group of books; e. g. 'Anglici libri';
'Paperbookes'; 'Theologici'; 'Books in folio'; 'Popishe
manuscripts'.
Private library: a collection of bibliographic items in
private hands; a personal collection of such items,
regardless of their number.
Volume: the physical state of a book. A book may be
written in one or more volumes (e. g. 'Hispania
illustrata. Vol.111'); a book may comprise two or more
parts, all in one or more volumes (e. g. 'English
navigations III parts. Vol.11'); two or more different
books may be bound in a single volume (e. g. 'Savanorola
in orationem Dominicam & psalmos penitentiales; ejusdem
eruditorium confessorum, & Triumphus crucis. Vno
volumine').
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Transcription principles used in Part II
When transcribing texts from manuscript sources, the
general intention has been to interfere with the
originals as little as possible. It has been felt,
however, that the nature of the documents considered here
does not warrant facsimile transcription, and no attempt
has been made to give a full account of the physical
state of the manuscripts.
1. Spelling, capitalisation and numerals
Spelling, capitalisation and numerals have been kept as
found in the original, and so have the long 'i' (e.g.
'iij', 'cum alijs', and 'vj d' in sums of money) and the
letters 'u' and 'v' (e. g. 'vniuersa').
However, features not easily reproduced have
had to be changed: the digraphs ' ' and ' ' have been
transcribed as 'ae' and 'oe'; the long 's' has been
transcribed as 's'; and old Greek has not been retained
(e.g. 'cpcç' has been rendered as 'IVwliat').
The initial double 'f' has been transcribed as 'F',
and 'y' (for Old English thorn) has been transcribed as 'th'.
2. Abbreviations
A few abbreviations still in common use today, such as
'Dr', have been retained. In sums of money, 't', 'ii.'
and similar abbreviations have been consistently rendered
as 'V, and shillings and pence have been left as 's'
and 'd'. Other suspensions and contractions have been
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expanded, with the expanded characters underlined, e.g.
'comaundement' has been transcribed as 'commaundenient'.
Many abbreviations could be expanded in more than
one way, and the original intention of the writers are
far from being always evident, not only in respect of
spelling but also of wording. When an abbreviation could
be expanded in more than one way, guidance has been
sought in the writer's predominant practice, when this
could be ascertained. The wording used in the book
described (in the case of printed books) has also been
taken into consideration, e. g. 'Orig: Palat. Freher.' has
been expanded as 'Origines Palatinae Freherj', not 'OrigQ
...', because the book is entitled 'Originum Palatinarum
commentarius'. When such guidance is not available, the
abbreviation has been left as such, with the abbreviation
mark represented by a period or colon (as found in the
manuscript) or by an apostrophe (when the abbreviation
mark is not easily reproduced).
A special case has had to be made when the Latin
words for 'commentary' and 'volume' are abbreviated.
'Comment.' could stand for 'commentuin', 'conimentarius'
and other words, and '3 vol.' could often be expanded
either in the nominative or the ablative. When no
overall pattern is discernible in the original, these
abbreviations have been expanded arbitrarily as
'commentariuin' in the plural (usually in the form
'conunentaria' or 'cuin coimnentariis', as appropriate), and
'volunien' in the nominative (e. g. '3 volumina').
Otiose marks of abbreviation have been ignored.