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.
- COVER
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Laura Cleaver
- PART I: DEALERS AND THE MARKET
- Pierre-Louis Pinault – 1. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bibliophilic Clubs, and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1878–1939
- A. S. G. Edwards – 2. Selling Middle English Manuscripts to North America up to 1945
- Danielle Magnusson – 3. Dollars and Drama: Early English Plays and the American Book Trade 1906–1926
- Livia Marcelli – 4. The Fates of the Manuscripts from the Vallicelliana Library of Rome at the End of the 19th Century
- Katharina Kaska and Christoph Egger – 5. Fuelling the Market: Sales from Austrian monasteries 1919–1938
- Angéline Rais – 6. Jacques Rosenthal’s Marketing Strategies
- Margaret Connolly – 7. From Drawing Room to Sale-room
- Lisa Fagin Davis – 8. Buying and Breaking with Philip and Otto
- PART II. BUYERS
- Francesca Manzari – 9. Illuminations from Northern and Central Italy in the Collection of the Dealer Vittorio Forti
- Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis – 10. The One That Got Away
- Karen Deslattes Winslow – 11. Becoming a Gentleman Collector
- Martina Lanza – 12. A Private Library and the Making of the Middle Ages in Florence: Piero Ginori Conti’s Collection
- Paola Paesano – 13. The “Calenzio Deal” and the Auction of the Oldest Vallicelliana Codices, 1874–1916
- Federico Botana – 14. The Acquisitions of Florentine Public Libraries 1900–1935
- Hannah Morcos – 15. Private Purses and “National” Possessions
- Jérémy Delmulle and Hanno Wijsman – 16. Provenance Research on Lost Manuscripts
- James C. P. Ranahan – 17. To Buy, or Not to Buy?
- Toby Burrows – 18. Women as Owners and Collectors in de Ricci’s Census
- Natalia Fantetti – 19. “A most fascinating and dangerous pursuit”
- Jill Unkel – 20. The Collector, Edith Beatty (1886–1952)
- Nathalie Roman – 21. Paul Durrieu (1855–1925)
- PART III. SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
- Nigel Ramsay – 22. Seymour de Ricci and William Roberts
- Christine Jakobi-Mirwald – 23. Stories of an Antiquary: The Legacy of M. R. James
- Kate Falardeau – 24. Phillipps MS 24275 and the 19th- and Early 20th-Century Historiography of Bede’s Martyrology
- Alan Mitchell – 25. Manuscripts and Meaning
- Nora Moroney – 26. Translation, Tradition, and Tracing the History of an Irish Manuscript Primer
- Dongwon Esther Kim – 27. The Bedford Psalter and Hours
- Alexandra Plane – 28. The National Collection That Never Was
- Gaia Grizzi – 29. Exhibiting Italian Books Outside Italy
- William P. Stoneman – 30. A Reference Book for Scholars and Collectors
- Laura Cleaver – Conclusion: Consequences
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Pre-Modern Manuscripts
- Index of People
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