Overview
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.
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Author: Laura Cleaver (Institute of English Studies, University of London) , Danielle Magnusson (Institute of English Studies, University of London) , Hannah Morcos , Angéline Rais (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Imprint: Arc Humanities Press
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9781802702576
ISBN 10: 1802702571
Pages: 490
Publication Date: 30 June 2025
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Table of 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
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Laura Cleaver is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies at the University of London and Principal Investigator of the CULTIVATE MSS project. Danielle Magnusson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the CULTIVATE MSS project. Her research focuses on American collecting and early modern drama. Hannah Morcos is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the CULTIVATE MSS project. Her research focuses on the trade in French manuscripts. Angéline Rais is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the CULTIVATE MSS project. Her research focuses on book dealers in Germany and Switzerland.
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