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The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Young Columbus and the quest for a universal library
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ISBN: 9780008146221 0008146225 Year: 2018 Publisher: London William Collins

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"Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one man's life spent collecting every book on every subject - including antique and modern worlds, science and law, as well as playing cards, pornography, and popular music. Who was Hernando Columbus and how did he achieve this? Set to the backdrop of Christopher Columbus' paradigm-defining explorations of the New World and beyond, and cutting across events of the Renaissance and Reformation, this book follows Hernando Columbus' bibliomania and curation of the first ever library of its kind. As the `natural son' of Christopher, Hernando had a complex relationship to his father and an acute need to validate his position. While originally from Liguria, Italy, it is in Spain that Christopher found travel patronage. The newly united Spain was under the rule of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. Due to this special rapport, Hernando spent his formative years as a page boy for Prince Juan, setting himself up as part of the royal inner circle. In his time assisting with the various minute as menial tasks necessary for the care of the Infante, he learned how to devise various organisational systems that would inform his future librarianship. By the time of his death in 1539 Hernando possessed the largest book collection of Europe - yet it was but a fraction of his collection, which he had envisioned as `everything' on every topic. Hernando had built an immortal engine capable of withstanding the return to dust that awaited all humans, creating not only a repository for books but also a proposition for how they would fit together. In this book, Wilson-Lee chronicles his extraordinary journey."--


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De gezonken verzameling van Ferdinand Columbus : de wonderbaarlijke reizen van vader en zoon Columbus en hun avontuurlijke zoektocht naar kennis
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ISBN: 9789029094665 9029094664 9789402317220 9402317228 Publisher: Amsterdam Meulenhoff

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A history of water : Being an account of a murder, an epic and two visions of global history
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ISBN: 9780008358228 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : William Collins,

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It is the 30th of January 1574 and the king's archivist lies dead - burned or strangled or drowned. The paper found in his hand could be from any corner of the Portuguese empire. But whatever it contains is probably a lie. From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling and true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.

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The catalogue of shipwrecked books : young Columbus and the quest for a universal library
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ISBN: 9780008146245 Year: 2019 Publisher: London William Collins

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The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
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ISBN: 9781982111403 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Scribner

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Translation and the book trade in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9781107080041 1107080045 9781107439320 1107439329 9781139942393 1316120724 1316132714 1316130533 1139942395 1316128350 1316131629 1316129446 9781316121818 131612181X 9781316129449 1322521697 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press

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This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following an introduction to the theories and practices of translation in early modern Europe, and to the role played by translated books in driving and defining the trade in printed books, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of translated-book history - language learning, audience, printing, marketing, and censorship - across several national traditions. This study touches on a wide range of early modern figures who played myriad roles in the book world; many of them also performed these roles in different countries and languages. Topics treated include printers' sensitivity to audience demand; paratextual and typographical techniques for manipulating perception of translated texts; theories of readership that travelled across borders; and the complex interactions between foreign-language teachers, teaching manuals, immigration, diplomacy, and exile.


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Hernando Colón's new world of books : toward a cartography of knowledge
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ISBN: 9780300230413 0300230419 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon. This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal--that is, to bring together copies of every book, on every subject and in every language. Perez Fernandez and Wilson-Lee situate Hernando's projects within the rapidly changing landscape of early modern knowledge, providing a concise history of the collection of information and the origins of public libraries, examining the challenges he faced and the solutions he devised. The two authors combine "meticulous research with deep and original thought," shedding light on the history of libraries and the organization of knowledge. The result is an essential reference text for scholars of the early modern period, and for anyone interested in the expansion and dissemination of information and knowledge.


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Hernando Colón's new world of books : toward a cartography of knowledge
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ISBN: 0300256205 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,

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The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colón This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal--that is, to bring together copies of every book, on every subject and in every language. Pérez Fernández and Wilson-Lee situate Hernando's projects within the rapidly changing landscape of early modern knowledge, providing a concise history of the collection of information and the origins of public libraries, examining the challenges he faced and the solutions he devised. The two authors combine "meticulous research with deep and original thought," shedding light on the history of libraries and the organization of knowledge. The result is an essential reference text for scholars of the early modern period, and for anyone interested in the expansion and dissemination of information and knowledge.

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