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The Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial keeps thousands of manuscripts on various subjects. This work deals with the study of an approximate dozen of medieval and modern Castilian manuscripts of legal content that, presumably, contain some compilation projects of the 16th century promoted by the crown. Many were the voices that during the aforementioned century demanded the kings the elaboration of a legal compilation that would amend the errors that Alonso Díaz de Montalvo, advisor to the Catholic Monarchs, had made in their compilation. And many are the testimonies that indicate that this reparative work began, was postponed and was resumed during the first years of the modern age. It is in these Escurialense manuscripts where the author has searched for those mentioned compilation projects, in them the intervention of very important jurists of the time like Lorenzo Gálindez de Carvajal, Ponce de León or Francisco de Espinosa can be glimpsed.

Law --- Derecho --- Early printed books. --- Libros antiguos. --- Bibliography --- Books --- Legal history --- History. --- Historia. --- Early printed books --- History and criticism --- Monasterio de El Escorial. --- Códices

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"The contributions in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources used to document and study these collections. They take the reader from large-scale projects on historical book ownership to micro-level research conducted on individual libraries, and from analyses of specific types of primary sources to general typologies and overviews by period and by region. As a result of its comparative approach and active engagement with questions regarding the nature, selection and accessibility of sources, the volume serves as a guide to sources and resources in different regions as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches"-- Provided by publisher.

Private libraries --- Booksellers' catalogs --- Book collectors --- Book collecting --- Books and reading --- Book industries and trade --- Early printed books --- Book collecting. --- Private libraries. --- History --- Catalogs

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Netherlandish Books offers a unique overview of what was printed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. This bibliography lists descriptions of over 32,000 editions together with bibliographical references, an introduction and indexes. It draws on the analysis of collections situated in libraries throughout the world. This is the first time that all the books published in the various territories that formed the Low Countries are presented together in a single bibliography. Netherlandish Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of the Low Countries, as well as historians of the early modern book world. Customers interested in this title may also be interested in French Vernacular Books , edited by Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby and Alexander Wilkinson.

Benelux countries --- Dutch imprints --- Bibliography, National --- -Dutch imprints --- -Bibliography, National --- -094.1 <492> --- 094.1 <493> --- 094 "14/15" --- National bibliography --- Book registration, National --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--Nederland --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--België --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1599 --- Dutch imprints. --- 094 "14/15" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1599 --- 094.1 <493> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--België --- 094.1 <492> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--Nederland --- Early printed books --- Netherlands --- 094.1 <492> --- Bibliography --- Books --- Book history --- anno 1500-1599 --- Belgium --- Benelux countries - Imprints --- Netherlands - Imprints --- Early printed books - Benelux countries - Bibliography --- Early printed books - Netherlands - Bibliography --- Bibliography, National - Benelux countries --- Bibliography, National - Netherlands

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Mythodologies challenges the implied methodology in contemporary studies in the humanities. We claim, at times, that we gather facts or what we will call evidence, and from that form hypotheses and conclusions. Of course, we recognize that the sum total of evidence for any argument is beyond comprehension; therefore, we construct, and we claim, preliminary hypotheses, perhaps to organize the chaos of evidence, or perhaps simply to find it; we might then see (we claim) whether that evidence challenges our tentative hypotheses. Ideally, we could work this way. Yet the history of scholarship and our own practices suggest we do nothing of the kind. Rather, we work the way we teach our composition students to write: choose or construct a thesis, then invent the evidence to support it. This book has three parts, examining such methods and pseudo-methods of invention in medieval studies, bibliography, and editing. Part One, “Noster Chaucer,” looks at examples in Chaucer studies, such as the notion that Chaucer wrote iambic pentameter, and the definition of a canon in Chaucer. “Our” Chaucer has, it seems, little to do with Chaucer himself, and in constructing this entity, Chaucerians are engaged largely in self-validation of their own tradition. Part Two, “Bibliography and Book History,” consists of three studies in the field of bibliography: the recent rise in studies of annotations; the implications of presumably neutral terminology in editing, a case-study in cataloguing. Part Three, “Cacophonies: A Bibliographical Rondo,” is a series of brief studies extending these critiques to other areas in the humanities. It seems not to matter what we talk about: meter, book history, the sex life of bonobos. In all of these discussions, we see the persistence of error, the intractability of uncritical assumptions, and the dominance of authority over evidence.

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval --- Bibliography --- Early printed books --- Methodology. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Books --- Bibliographic control --- Bibliographical control --- Library research --- Theory, methods, etc. --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- medieval studies --- Chaucer --- book history --- intellectual history --- bibliography

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The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th century still had much in common with manuscripts. They are not mere textual sources, but also material objects whose physical make-up and individual features need to be taken into account in library projects for cataloguing and digitization.

Early printed books --- Printing --- History --- libraries --- Arts --- Europe --- Book history --- 09 <063> --- 093 <063> --- BPB1101 --- Manuscrit --- 611.1 Openbare bibliotheken --- 093 <063> Incunabelen. Incunabelkunde--Congressen --- Incunabelen. Incunabelkunde--Congressen --- 09 <063> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- Manuscript --- Books --- Livres anciens --- Imprimerie --- History. --- Histoire --- Bibliography --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- bindings [gathered matter components] --- provenance --- analytical bibliography --- annotations --- boekdrukkunst --- distribution [function] --- illumination [image-making process] --- incunabula --- provenance [history of ownership] --- Graphic arts --- Library materials --- Publications --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- rokraksts --- χειρόγραφο --- rankraštis --- käsikirjoitus --- rukopis --- kézirat --- ракопис --- rokopis --- manuskript --- manuskritt --- рукопис --- manuscris --- lámhscríbhinn --- ръкопис --- manoscritto --- käsikiri --- dorëshkrim --- Handschrift --- manuscrito --- rękopis --- manuscript --- kodeks --- códice --- handskrift --- kódex --- koodeksi --- Manuskript --- Codex --- манускрипт --- rukopisná kniha --- Early printed books - Europe --- Printing - Europe - History --- incunabula [books]