Lost Books Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> Library of the Written Word VOLUME 46 The Handpress World Editor-in-Chief Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews) Editorial Board Ann Blair (Harvard University) Falk Eisermann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preuβischer Kulturbesitz) Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford) Angela Nuovo (University of Udine) Helen Smith (University of New York) Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool) Malcolm Walsby (University of Rennes ii) VOLUME 34 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/lww Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> Lost Books Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe Edited by Flavia Bruni Andrew Pettegree LEIDEN | BOSTON Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> Cover illustration: printer’s device on title page of Paolo Giovio, Libro de’ pesci romani (Venice: Gualtieri, 1560); © Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie Charles Darwin, University La Sapienza, Rome [ZO.9.A.20]. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bruni, Flavia, editor. | Pettegree, Andrew, editor. Title: Lost books : reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe / edited by Flavia Bruni, Andrew Pettegree. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] | Series: Library of the written word ; volume 46 | Series: The handpress world ; volume 34 | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2015047020 (print) | LCCN 2016010355 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004311817 (hardback : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004311824 (e-book) | ISBN 9789004311824 (E-book) Subjects: LCSH: Lost books--Europe--History. | Early printed books--Europe. | Books--Europe--History--1450-1600. | Books--Europe--History--17th century. | Printing--Europe--History--16th century. | Printing--Europe--History--17th century. | Censorship--Europe--History. | Private libraries--Europe--History. | Libraries--Destruction and pillage--Europe--History. 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Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> Contents List of Abbreviations ix Notes on Contributors x 1 The Legion of the Lost. Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe 1 Andrew Pettegree Part 1 In the Beginning: Lost Incunabula 2 The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them 31 Falk Eisermann 3 Lost Incunable Editions: Closing in on an Estimate 55 Jonathan Green and Frank McIntyre Part 2 National Case-Studies 4 Lost Books of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain 75 Iain Fenlon 5 Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective 101 Wolfgang Undorf 6 In Search of Lost Fortuna. Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling 120 Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba 7 Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers’ Company Register, 1557–1640 144 Alexandra Hill Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> vi Contents 8 Survival Factors of Seventeenth-Century Hand-Press Books Published in the Southern Netherlands: The Importance of Sheet Counts, Sammelbände and the Role of Institutional Collections 160 Goran Proot 9 Publicity and Its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 202 Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree 10 Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth Century 223 Domenico Ciccarello Part 3 Censorship and Its Consequences 11 Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé’s De l’Institution du Prince 239 Christine Bénévent and Malcolm Walsby 12 The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of the Italian Renaissance: The Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l’anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni 276 Michele Camaioni 13 An Unknown Best-Seller: The Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo 291 Rosa Marisa Borraccini 14 The Devil’s Trick. Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century 310 Roberto Rusconi 15 On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: A Numerical Analysis of the rici Database 324 Giovanna Granata Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> Contents vii Part 4 Libraries, Private and Public 16 Loss and Meaning. Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library 347 Anna Giulia Cavagna 17 Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What Happened to the Personal Library and Archive of Hugo Grotius Following His Arrest on Charges of High Treason in August 1618? 362 Martine Julia van Ittersum 18 Dispersed Collections of Scientific Books: The Case of the Private Library of Federico Cesi (1585–1630) 386 Maria Teresa Biagetti 19 Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane 400 Alison Walker 20 Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union Catalogue 414 Mark Towsey Part 5 War and Peace: The Depredations of Modern Times 21 Lost Books of ‘Operation Gomorrah’: Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg’s Library in the Second World War 441 Jan L. Alessandrini 22 Two Centuries of Looting and the Grand Nazi Book Burning. The Dispersed and Destroyed Libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Historical Losses and Contemporary Attempts at Reconstruction 462 Tomasz Nastulczyk Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> viii Contents 23 All is not Lost. Italian Archives and Libraries in the Second World War 469 Flavia Bruni 24 Tracing Lost Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in Sixteenth-Century Cologne 488 Saskia Limbach Index 505 Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> List of Abbreviations eebo Early English Books Online, online: <http://eebo.chadwyck.com> Edit16 cnce Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche, Censimento nazionale delle edizioni italiane del xvi secolo, online: <http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it> estc English Short Title Catalogue, online: <http://estc.bl.uk> gw Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, online: <http://www.gesamtkatalog derwiegendrucke.de> hpb Heritage of The Printed Book in Europe, online: <http://www.cerl.org/ resources/hpb/main> igi Centro nazionale d’informazioni bibliografiche, Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia (Rome: Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1943–1981) istc Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, online: <http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/ istc> rici Ricerca sull’Inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice, online: <http:// rici.vatlib.it> rism Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, online: <https://opac .rism.info> stcn Short Title Catalogue, Netherlands, online: <https://www.kb.nl/en/organi sation/research-expertise/for-libraries/short-title-catalogue-nether lands-stcn> stcv Short Title Catalogue Flanders, online: <http://www.vlaamse-erfgoed bibliotheek.be/en/stcv> ustc Universal Short Title Catalogue, online: <http://www.ustc.ac.uk> VD16 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, online: <http://www.vd16.de> VD17 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts, online: <http://www.vd17.de> Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree - 9789004311824 Downloaded from Brill.com09/23/2021 11:06:53AM via free access <UN> Notes on Contributors Flavia Bruni is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rome La Sapienza and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She has a Master in History of the Reformation from the Sapienza University of Rome, a Master in Early Printed Books from the University of Siena, a PhD from Bologna and the diploma from the Vatican Library