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Anthony Grafton: The First Bibliophiles, 24 July 2025
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
by Andrew Hui.
Princeton, 303 pp., £25, January,978 0 691 24332 0 Show More
by Andrew Hui.
Princeton, 303 pp., £25, January,
The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain
by Seth Kimmel.
Chicago, 262 pp., £40, May 2024,978 0 226 83317 0 Show More
by Seth Kimmel.
Chicago, 262 pp., £40, May 2024,
“... to me.’As in China, so in Europe, many libraries grew much larger than individuals’ studies. Seth Kimmel tells the story of two collections that aspired to universal coverage: the vast library that Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, amassed in the first decades of the 16th century as he travelled across Europe before ... ”
