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This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts. Between 1890 and 1945 thousands of manuscripts made in Europe before 1600 appeared on the market. Many entered the collections in which they have remained, shaping where and how we encounter the books today. These collections included libraries that bear their founders' names, as well as national and regional public libraries. The choices of the super-rich shaped their collections and determined what was available to those with fewer resources. In addition, wealthy collectors sponsored scholarship on their manuscripts and participated in exhibitions, raising the profile of some books. This volume examines the collectors, dealers, and scholars who engaged with pre-modern books, and the cultural context of the manuscript trade in this era.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
Part 1: Dealers and the Market
Chapter 1. "Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bibliophilic Clubs and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1878-1939," by Pierre-Louis Pinault
Chapter 2. "Selling Middle English Manuscripts to North America up to 1945," by A. S. G. Edwards
Chapter 3. "Dollars and Drama: Early English Plays and the American Book Trade 1906-1926," by Danielle Magnusson
Chapter 4. "The Fates of the Manuscripts from the Vallicelliana Library of Rome at the end of the Nineteenth Century," by Livia Marcelli
Chapter 5. "Fuelling the Market—Sales from Austrian Monasteries 1919-1938," by Katharina Kaska and Christoph Egger
Chapter 6. "Jacques Rosenthal's Marketing Strategies: An Analysis of the Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta, 1925 and 1928," by Angéline Rais
Chapter 7. "From Drawing Room to Sale-room: Albums of Medieval Manuscript Cuttings in the 1920s," by Margaret Connolly
Chapter 8. "Buying and Breaking with Philip and Otto," by Lisa Fagin Davis
Part 2: Buyers
Chapter 9. "Illuminations from Northern and Central Italy in the Collection of the Dealer Vittorio Forti," by Francesca Manzari
Chapter 10. "The One That Got Away: How Lord Brotherton Lost Out on a Book and Founded a Library," by Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis
Chapter 11. "Becoming a Gentleman Collector: Alfred Chester Beatty's Influence on Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian's Manuscript Collection," by Karen Winslow
Chapter 12. "A Private Library and the Making of the Middle Ages in Florence: Piero Ginori Conti's Collection," by Martina Lanza
Chapter 13. "The 'Calenzio Deal' and the Auction of the Oldest Vallicelliana Codices, 1874-1916," by Paola Paesano
Chapter 14. "The Acquisitions of Florentine Public Libraries 1900-1935," by Federico Botana
Chapter 15. "Private Purses and 'National' Possessions: The French Acquisitions from the Phillipps Library (1908)," by Hannah Morcos
Chapter 16. "The Case of Louvain University Library 1919-1940," by Jérémy Delmulle and Hanno Wijsman
Chapter 17. "To Buy, or Not to Buy? Market Forces and the Making of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collections," by James C. P. Ranahan
Chapter 18. "Women Owners and Collectors in de Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada," by Toby Burrows
Chapter 19. "'A most fascinating and dangerous pursuit': The Book Collecting of Isabella Stewart Gardner," by Natalia Fantetti
Chapter 20. "The Collector, Edith Beatty (1886-1952)," by Jill Unkel
Chapter 21. "Paul Durrieu (1855-1925): Art Collecting and Scholarly Expertise," by Nathalie Roman
Part 3: Scholarly and Creative Engagements
Chapter 22. "Chronicling the Market in Rare Books and Manuscripts: William Roberts and Seymour de Ricci," by Nigel Ramsay
Chapter 23. "Stories of an Antiquary: The Legacy of M. R. James," by Christine Jakobi-Mirwald
Chapter 24. "Phillipps MS 24275 and the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Historiography of Bede's Martyrology," by Kate Falardeau
Chapter 25. "Manuscripts and Meaning: The Biography and Value of John Ruskin's Blue Psalter, Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR), MS IV 1013," by Alan Mitchell
Chapter 26. "Translation, Tradition and Tracing the History of an Irish Manuscript Primer," by Nora Moroney,
Chapter 27. "The Bedford Psalter and Hours: Making and Un-making National Identity in the Acquisition of an 'English' Manuscript," by Dongwon Esther Kim
Chapter 28. "The National Collection that Never Was: The 'failure' of Henry Yates Thompson's Experimental National Gallery Exhibition," by Alexandra Plane
Chapter 29. "Exhibiting Italian Books Outside Italy: Tammaro de Marinis and the1926 Exposition du livre italien," by Gaia Grizzi
Chapter 30. "A Reference Book for Scholars and Collectors: Eric Millar's English Illuminated Manuscripts, 1926-1928," by William P. Stoneman
Conclusion: "Consequences"
Select Bibliography
Index of Pre-Modern Manuscripts
Index of People
