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Les livres étaient les principaux instruments des humanistes. Erasme, Lipse, Torrentius et tant d'autres y puisaient non seulement leur savoir universel, mais divulguaient aussi par cette voie leurs idées scientifiques, philosophiques, linguistiques et littéraires. Au début de la Renaissance cela se faisait toujours par des livres manuscrits, mais l'invention de l'imprimerie a déclenché une véritable explosion de la communication et partout en Europe nous voyons naître des bibliothèques privées importantes. Some of these private libraries are world-wide renowned because of their near-intact nature. Thus we can now still visit the libraries of Cusanus and Beatus Rhenanus. However, these are exceptions. The majority of libraries have become dispersed and can only be reconstructed after extensive investigations. This book aims to shed light on as many aspects of the humanist libraries as possible and in doing so demonstrate their importance for the functioning of networks of scholars from the 15th to the 17th century.

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