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On December 13, 1624, Frankfurt city physician and mathematician Johann Hartmann Beyer donated his book collection to the local city library. With almost 2,900 prints and manuscripts in 1,152 volumes, it was the largest private library in the imperial city in the early modern period; it reflects both the political and reformatory debates of the time and the medical and mathematical-astronomical discourses of the period. To mark the 400th anniversary of the donation, the inventory of the collection compiled by Beyer himself is being critically edited. Together with the approximately 300 volumes preserved in today's University Library of Frankfurt am Main, this will make it possible to reconstruct the former holdings of the book collection and its acquisition chronology, as well as the role of the Frankfurt book market and Beyer's scientific network.



