Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book

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Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book Copyright Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Evolution of the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs and Their Catalogues, 1564-1700 1 Law and Politics Frankfurt, Leipzig, the Imperial Court and the Electorate of Saxony 2 Procedures and Practices 3 Unofficial Versions of Frankfurt Fair Catalogues 4 The Evolving Intellectual Environment and the Disciplines 5 Foreign Visitors and the Evolution of the Fairs 6 Interpreting Schwetschke's Statistics 7 Concluding Remarks Appendix 1.2 The Woyt Entry in 'Libri medici et chymici' A1704, D2v 2 Italy and the Heyday of the Frankfurt Fair, c. 1580 to 1620 1 Sources 2 Ciotti at the Frankfurt Fair in 1587 3 The Emergence of the Printed Catalogue of Ultramontane Books 4 Italy and the Frankfurt Fair in the Last Decades of the Sixteenth Century the Role of Consortia 5 Some Major Clients and Their Desiderata 6 An Interloper in the Export-Import Market Gaspare Bindoni il Giovane 7 The Three Trade Catalogues of 1602 Their Sources and Contents 8 Postscript the Decline of the Societas Veneta and Venetian Imports and Exports 9 Concluding Remarks Appendix 2.1 Transcription of mpm Archief 964, ff. 49v-50r (Cahier de Francfort, Autumn 1587) Appendix 2.2 Catalogo de i libri della fiera di Franchfort passata di settembre MDCI. Di Gasparo Bindoni Libraro in Bologna. Con li prezzi à moneta di Alemagna Auuertando ogn'vno, che vn Florino s'intende per l'F & i soldi per l'S però sono moneta di Fra Appendix 2.4 Items Marked "novo" in the 1602 Catalogus eorum librorum omnium, qui in ultramontanis Regionibus impressi apud Io. Baptistam Ciottum prostant 3 Publishers, Book Fairs, Academies, Journals: the Dissemination of English Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 1 The Status Quo Ante 2 After the Thirty Years War 3 The Advent of the Journals in Northern Europe 4 The Journals in Latin Translation 5 The English Latin Trade, at Home and Abroad 6 English Medicine 7 English Natural Philosophy 8 Concluding Remarks 4 Publishing Italian Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1661-1710 1 The de' Medici of Mid-seventeenth-Century Florence and Their Scientific Clients 2 Alessandro Marchetti (1633-1714) 3 Francesco Redi (1626-97) 4 Lorenzo Bellini (1643-1704) 5 Marcello Malpighi (1628-94) 6 Giorgio Baglivi (1668-1707) 7 Concluding Remarks 5 Andreas Frisius (Fries) of Amsterdam and the Search for a Niche Market, 1664-1675 1 Andreas and the Reader 2 Andreas's Family Connections Joan de la Noue and the Combi 3 Andreas Frisius before His Publishing Career 4 Bookseller-Publishers, Their Financial Environment, and Their Networks 5 The Frankfurt Fair in Andreas's Time 6 Andreas as Bookseller 7 Andreas as Publisher and His Purchasers 8 The Material History of Andreas's Publications 9 Antiquarianism 10 Natural Philosophy and Medicine 11 Three Anomalies 12 The Aftermath 13 Concluding Remarks Appendix 5.1 A Catalogue Raisonné of Andreas's Involvement in Publishing 6 The Thesauruses of Otto and Meerman as Publishing Enterprises: Legal Humanism in Its Last Phase, 1725- 1780 1 Legal Humanism 2 Law in the Book Market before the Thirty Years War 3 The Latin Trade after 1650 and the Role of the Netherlands 4 Historia Literaria, the Republic of Letters, and Legal Humanist Authors 5 The Novus Thesaurus and Its Supplement (1751-1780) 6 Concluding Remarks Appendix 6.1 The Contents of the Thesaurus Juris Romani (1725-6, 1735), the Novus Thesaurus Juris Civilis et Canonico (1751-3) and the Supplementum Novi Thesauri (1780) Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Including Editions of Early Modern Texts with Introductions) Index