Recent Books
- Recent Books
AUSTRIA
Richly detailed, yet lucidly presented, investigation into the way in which Italian humanistic script gradually penetrated the chancellery of Emperor Frederick III at Vienna in the second half of the fifteenth century. Based on meticulous palaeographical analysis of a wide range of original documents, the study offers a fresh examination of the extent to which Frederick’s environment was open to humanistic influences and throws considerable light on the careers and roles of several identifiable scribes, including Jakob Joel von Linz, Michael von Pfullendorf, Enea Silvio Piccolomini (the later Pope Pius II), Johannes Roth, Johannes Rehwein, Thomas Preokolar von Cilli, Pietro Bonomo, and Bernhard Perger.
GERMANY
Attempted reconstruction and analysis of the Carmelite library at Mainz, covering the period from the early fifteenth century to its secularization in 1802. Since no catalogue exists, the project is based on the 1,589 books from the library which have been identified so far. Among them are 39 manuscripts and 289 incunabula and pre-1520 printed books.
THE LOW COUNTRIES
Includes: A. Pettegree, ‘The Legion of the Lost: Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe’; F. Eisermann, ‘The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve them’; J. Green and F. McIntyre, ‘Lost Incunable Editions: Closing in on an Estimate’; I. Fenlon, ‘Lost Books of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain’; W. Undorf, ‘Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective’; J. Kiliáczyk-Zíba, ‘In Search of Lost Fortuna: Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling’; A. Hill, ‘Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers’ Company Register, 1557–1640’; G. Proot, ‘Survival Factors of Seventeenth-Century Hand-Press Books Published in the Southern Netherlands: The Importance of Sheet Counts, Sammelbände and the Role of Institutional Collections’; A. der Weduwen and A. Pettegree, ‘Publicity and its Uses: Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper [End Page 467] Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’; D. Ciccarello, ‘Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth Century’; C. Benevent and M. Walsby, ‘Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé’s De l’Institution du Prince’; M. Camaioni, ‘The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of Italian Renaissance: The Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l’anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni’; R. M. Borraccini, ‘An Unknown Bestseller: The Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo’; R. Rusconi, ‘The Devil’s Trick: Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century’; G. Granata, ‘On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: A Numerical Analysis of the RICI Database’; A. G. Cavagna, ‘Loss and Meaning: Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library’; M. van Ittersum, ‘Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What Happened to the Personal Library and Archive of Hugo Grotius Following His Arrest on Charges of High Treason in August 1618?’; M. T. Biagetti, ‘Dispersed Collections of Scientific Books: The Case of the Private Library of Federico Cesi (1585–1630)’; A. Walker, ‘Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane’; M. Towsey, ‘Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union Catalogue’; J. L. Alessandrini, ‘Lost Books of “Operation Gomorrah”: Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg’s Library in the Second...
