Renaissance book collecting : Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their books and bindings
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Renaissance book collecting : Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their books and bindings
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and indexes
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Description
This book, first published in 1999, studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full catalogue is provided for the first time. Both men were greatly influenced by experience of Italy. Grolier has been called 'the Prince of Bibliophiles'; the books he commissioned have long been famous. This is the first full account of his life for eighty years. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet, historian, Greek scholar and Arabist. He served as the Emperor's Ambassador in Venice (1540-6), to the Council of Trent (1545-6), and to the Pope (1547-52). In Venice he set out to form for Spain a collection of Greek manuscripts to rival that being formed for France by Francis I's agents. Anthony Hobson's text is complemented by ninety-one illustrations, several thematic indexes, eleven appendices and a bibliography.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- 1. Grolier: the early years
- 2. Grolier in Italy 1515-21
- 3. Grolier in France
- 4. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
- 5. Venetian sixteenth-century bookbinders
- Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's library of printed books
- Index of printers and publishers
- Index of editors, commentators and translators
- Index of plaquette bindings
- Appendices: 1. Grolier's bindings classified by workshop
- 2. Grolier's petition to Francis I
- 3. Anne Briconnet's coins and medals
- 4. The Venetian catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Greek manuscripts
- 5. Bindings by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo)
- 6. Andronicus Nucius's power of attorney
- 7. Bindings by the Cicero Binder
- 8. Bindings by the Fugger Binder
- 9. Venetian Bindings by Anthoni Lodewijk
- 10. Bindings by the Agnese Binder (Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino?)
- 11. Bindings by the Emblematic Binder
- Bibliography
- Index.
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