The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and Its Consequences, Ca. 1890-1945

The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and Its Consequences, Ca. 1890-1945

This book is Open Access and available from OAPEN. This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts between 1890 and 1945, and its impact.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cleaver, Laura (-)
Autor Corporativo: Arc Humanities Press funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Magnusson, Danielle, Morcos, Hannah, Rais, Angéline
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities Series
Materias:
ART / Museum Studies.
Quaritch.
book collecting.
medieval manuscripts.
rare books.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009834256006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I DEALERS AND THE MARKET
  • Chapter 1. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bibliophilic Clubs, and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1878-1939
  • Chapter 2. Selling Middle English Manuscripts to North America up to 1945
  • Chapter 3. Dollars and Drama: Early English Plays and the American Book Trade 1906-1926
  • Chapter 4. The Fates of the Manuscripts from the Vallicelliana Library of Rome at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 5. Fuelling the Market: Sales from Austrian monasteries 1919-1938
  • Chapter 6. Jacques Rosenthal's Marketing Strategies: An Analysis of the Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (1925 and 1928)
  • Chapter 7. From Drawing Room to Sale-room: Albums of Medieval Manuscript Cuttings in the 1920s
  • Chapter 8. Buying and Breaking with Philip and Otto
  • Part II BUYERS
  • Chapter 9. Illuminations from Northern and Central Italy in the Collection of the Dealer Vittorio Forti
  • Chapter 10. The One That Got Away: How Lord Brotherton Lost Out on a Book and Founded a Library
  • Chapter 11. Becoming a Gentleman Collector: Alfred Chester Beatty's Influence on Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian's Manuscript Collection
  • Chapter 12. A Private Library and the Making of the Middle Ages in Florence: Piero Ginori Conti's Collection
  • Chapter 13. The "Calenzio Deal" and the Auction of the Oldest Vallicelliana Codices, 1874-1916
  • Chapter 14. The Acquisitions of Florentine Public Libraries 1900-1935
  • Chapter 15. Private Purses and "National" Possessions: The French Acquisition from the Phillipps Library (1908)
  • Chapter 16. Provenance Research on Lost Manuscripts: The Case of Louvain University Library (1919-1940)
  • Chapter 17. To Buy, or Not to Buy? Market Forces and the Making of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collections
  • Chapter 18. Women as Owners and Collectors in de Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada
  • Chapter 19. "A most fascinating and dangerous pursuit": The Book Collecting of Isabella Stewart Gardner
  • Chapter 20. The Collector, Edith Beatty (1886-1952)
  • Chapter 21. Paul Durrieu (1855-1925): Art Collecting and Scholarly Expertise
  • Part III SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
  • Chapter 22. Seymour de Ricci and William Roberts: Recorders and Analysts of the Market
  • Chapter 23. Stories of an Antiquary: The Legacy of M. R. James
  • Chapter 24. Phillipps MS 24275 and the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Historiography of Bede's Martyrology
  • Chapter 25. Manuscripts and Meaning: The Biography and Value of John Ruskin's Blue Psalter, Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR), MS IV 1013
  • Chapter 26. Translation, Tradition, and Tracing the History of an Irish Manuscript Primer
  • Chapter 27. The Bedford Psalter and Hours: Making and Un-making National Identity in the Acquisition of an "English" Manuscript
  • Chapter 28. The National Collection That Never Was: The "Failure" of Henry Yates Thompson's Experimental National Gallery Exhibition
  • Chapter 29. Exhibiting Italian Books Outside Italy: Tammaro De Marinis and the 1926 Exposition du livre italien
  • Chapter 30. A Reference Book for Scholars and Collectors: Eric Millar's English Illuminated Manuscripts (1926-1928)
  • Conclusion: Consequences
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index of Pre-Modern Manuscripts
  • Index of People

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