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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
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9781802701371

ISBN 10:   1802701370
Pages:   490
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements  Abbreviations List of Illustrations  List of Tables Introduction  Part 1: Dealers and the Market  Chapter 1. Pierre-Louis Pinault, Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bibliophilic Clubs and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1878–1939  Chapter 2. A. S. G. Edwards, Selling Middle English Manuscripts to North America up to 1945  Chapter 3. Danielle Magnusson, Dollars and Drama: Early English Plays and the American Book Trade 1906–1926  Chapter 4. Livia Marcelli, The Fates of the Manuscripts from the Vallicelliana Library of Rome at the end of the Nineteenth Century  Chapter 5. Katharina Kaska and Christoph Egger, Fuelling the Market—Sales from Austrian Monasteries 1919–1938  Chapter 6. Angéline Rais, Jacques Rosenthal’s Marketing Strategies: An Analysis of the Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta,1925–1928  Chapter 7. Margaret Connolly, From Drawing Room to Sale-room: Albums of Medieval Manuscript Cuttings in the 1920s  Chapter 8. Lisa Fagin Davis, Buying and Breaking with Philip and Otto  Part 2: Buyers  Chapter 9. Francesca Manzari, Illuminations from Northern and Central Italy in the Collection of the Dealer Vittorio Forti  Chapter 10. Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis, The One That Got Away: How Lord Brotherton Lost Out on a Book and Founded a Library  Chapter 11. Karen Winslow, Becoming a Gentleman Collector: Alfred Chester Beatty’s Influence on Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian’s Manuscript Collection  Chapter 12. Martina Lanza, A Private Library and the Making of the Middle Ages in Florence: Piero Ginori Conti’s Collection  Chapter 13. Paola Paesano, The “Calenzio Deal” and the Auction of the Oldest Vallicelliana Codices, 1874–1916 Chapter 14. Federico Botana, The Acquisitions of Florentine Public Libraries 1900–1935  Chapter 15. Hannah Morcos, Private Purses and “National” Possessions: The French Acquisitions from the Phillipps Library (1908)  Chapter 16. Jérémy Delmulle and Hanno Wijsman, The Case of Louvain University Library 1919–1940 Chapter 17. James C. P. Ranahan, To Buy, or Not to Buy? Market Forces and the Making of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Collections  Chapter 18. Toby Burrows, Women Owners and Collectors in de Ricci’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada  Chapter 19. Natalia Fantetti, “A most fascinating and dangerous pursuit:” The Book Collecting of Isabella Stewart Gardner  Chapter 20. Jill Unkel, The Collector, Edith Beatty (1886–1952)  Chapter 21. Nathalie Roman, Paul Durrieu (1855–1925): Art Collecting and Scholarly Expertise  Part 3: Scholarly and Creative Engagements  Chapter 22. Nigel Ramsay, Chronicling the Market in Rare Books and Manuscripts: William Roberts and Seymour de Ricci  Chapter 23. Christine Jakobi-Mirwald, Stories of an Antiquary: The Legacy of M. R. James  Chapter 24. Kate Falardeau, Phillipps MS 24275 and the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Historiography of Bede’s Martyrology Chapter 25. Alan Mitchell, Manuscripts and Meaning: The Biography and Value of John Ruskin’s Blue Psalter, Brussels,Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR), MS IV 1013  Chapter 26. Nora Moroney, Translation, Tradition and Tracing the History of an Irish Manuscript Primer Chapter 27. Dongwon Esther Kim, The Bedford Psalter and Hours: Making and Un-making National Identity in the Acquisition of an “English” Manuscript  Chapter 28. Alexandra Plane, The National Collection that Never Was: The “failure” of Henry Yates Thompson’s Experimental National Gallery Exhibition  Chapter 29. Gaia Grizzi, Exhibiting Italian Books Outside Italy: Tammaro de Marinis and the 1926 Exhibition Le livre italien  Chapter 30. William P. Stoneman, A Reference Book for Scholars and Collectors: Eric Millar’s English Illuminated Manuscripts, 1926–1928  Conclusion: Consequences Select Bibliography Index of Premodern Manuscripts Index of Personal Names

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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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