The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and Its Consequences, Ca. 1890-1945

• Autore: Cleaver Laura
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 pages)
• Disciplina: 091.09034
• Soggetto topico: ART / Museum Studies
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Quaritch; book collecting; medieval manuscripts; rare books
• Altri autori: MagnussonDanielle MorcosHannah RaisAngéline
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I DEALERS AND THE MARKET -- Chapter 1. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bibliophilic Clubs, and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1878-1939 -- Chapter 2. Selling Middle English Manuscripts to North America up to 1945 -- Chapter 3. Dollars and Drama: Early English Plays and the American Book Trade 1906-1926 -- Chapter 4. The Fates of the Manuscripts from the Vallicelliana Library of Rome at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5. Fuelling the Market: Sales from Austrian monasteries 1919-1938 -- Chapter 6. Jacques Rosenthal's Marketing Strategies: An Analysis of the Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (1925 and 1928) -- Chapter 7. From Drawing Room to Sale-room: Albums of Medieval Manuscript Cuttings in the 1920s -- Chapter 8. Buying and Breaking with Philip and Otto -- Part II BUYERS -- Chapter 9. Illuminations from Northern and Central Italy in the Collection of the Dealer Vittorio Forti -- Chapter 10. The One That Got Away: How Lord Brotherton Lost Out on a Book and Founded a Library -- Chapter 11. Becoming a Gentleman Collector: Alfred Chester Beatty's Influence on Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian's Manuscript Collection -- Chapter 12. A Private Library and the Making of the Middle Ages in Florence: Piero Ginori Conti's Collection -- Chapter 13. The "Calenzio Deal" and the Auction of the Oldest Vallicelliana Codices, 1874-1916 -- Chapter 14. The Acquisitions of Florentine Public Libraries 1900-1935 -- Chapter 15. Private Purses and "National" Possessions: The French Acquisition from the Phillipps Library (1908) -- Chapter 16. Provenance Research on Lost Manuscripts: The Case of Louvain University Library (1919-1940) -- Chapter 17. To Buy, or Not to Buy? Market Forces and the Making of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collections -- Chapter 18. Women as Owners and Collectors in de Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada -- Chapter 19. "A most fascinating and dangerous pursuit": The Book Collecting of Isabella Stewart Gardner -- Chapter 20. The Collector, Edith Beatty (1886-1952) -- Chapter 21. Paul Durrieu (1855-1925): Art Collecting and Scholarly Expertise -- Part III SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS -- Chapter 22. Seymour de Ricci and William Roberts: Recorders and Analysts of the Market -- Chapter 23. Stories of an Antiquary: The Legacy of M. R. James -- Chapter 24. Phillipps MS 24275 and the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Historiography of Bede's Martyrology -- Chapter 25. Manuscripts and Meaning: The Biography and Value of John Ruskin's Blue Psalter, Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR), MS IV 1013 -- Chapter 26. Translation, Tradition, and Tracing the History of an Irish Manuscript Primer -- Chapter 27. The Bedford Psalter and Hours: Making and Un-making National Identity in the Acquisition of an "English" Manuscript -- Chapter 28. The National Collection That Never Was: The "Failure" of Henry Yates Thompson's Experimental National Gallery Exhibition -- Chapter 29. Exhibiting Italian Books Outside Italy: Tammaro De Marinis and the 1926 Exposition du livre italien -- Chapter 30. A Reference Book for Scholars and Collectors: Eric Millar's English Illuminated Manuscripts (1926-1928) -- Conclusion: Consequences -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Pre-Modern Manuscripts -- Index of People
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is Open Access and available from OAPEN. This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts between 1890 and 1945, and its impact.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and Its Consequences, Ca. 1890-1945
• ISBN: 1-80270-207-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910866401303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities Series