Libri Pertinentes, Vol. 8

The Library of a Jesuit Community at Holbeck, Nottinghamshire (1670)

By Hendrik Dijkgraaf General Editor, Dr. Elisabeth Leedham-Green
2003 | 370 pp. | Paperback | 7 x 10 in | 978-0-86698-307-5 | MRTS 264
$30 | £24

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Libri Pertinentes, Volume 8
General Editor: Dr. Elisabeth Leedham-Green

The Holbeck catalogue is apparently the only recorded 17th-century Jesuit missionary library. There are of course several catalogues of Jesuit institutional libraries in France, Germany and elsewhere, but these are libraries solely for the clergy, and in some cases these libraries lost their Jesuit identity through being swamped by large gifts from outside sources. The Holbeck library, on the other hand, was just large enough to be a working tool, and compact enough to have a recognizable identity. Dr Dijkgraaf has supplied a comprehensive account of the library and its context and thanks to his elaborate analysis of the contents, we are able to rationalize and justify the presence of each and every book on the shelves.

These works complement our Private Libraries in Renaissance England series. Libri Pertinentes aims to present evidence for substantial libraries, specialist and general, private and institutional, from 1500 to 1700. Each volume includes an introductory essay and an index of authors.

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