History of Books

Script for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjepyBwdpOY, which is part of the MOOC "Deciphering the secrets of medieval illuminated manuscripts", offered by the universities of Colorado (US) and Complutense (Spain) through www.coursera.org,

История книготоргового дела С.-Петербурга привлекала внимание мно гих ис сле до ва те лей, за ни мав ших ся изу че ни ем книж но го де ла в це-лом или по свя тив ших свои ра бо ты дея тель но сти его от дель ных пред-ста ви те лей 1. Пер со наль ный со став кни го тор го вой от рас ли в це лом ос-та ет ся за рам ка ми на уч но го ин те ре са спе циа ли стов 2. Списки книготорговых заведений начали печататься с 1860-х гг.: они пуб ли ко ва лись в жур на лах и га зе тах 3 или вы хо ди ли са мо стоя тель-ны ми из да ния ми. В не ко то рых из них дан ные о пе тер бург ских книж-ных ма га зи нах и иных за ве де ни ях (ти по гра фи ях, биб лио те ках для чте-ния и т. д.) при сут ст во ва ли на ря ду с пе реч ня ми пе рио ди че ской пе ча ти Рос сии или на зы ва лись сре ди уч ре ж де ний, свя зан ных с кни го про из-вод ст вом и кни го рас про ст ра не ни ем всей стра ны 4. В 1890—1900 гг. их со став ле ни ем и из да ни ем за ни ма лось Рус ское об ще ст во кни го про дав-цев и из да те лей 5. Све де ния о пе тер бург ских книж ных ма га зи нах и их вла дель цах (так же в ря ду дру гих ре гио нов Рос сии) от ра же ны в спра-воч ни ках, в ко то рых из ло же ны пра ви ла от кры тия за ве де ний кни го тор-гов ли, ус ло вия про хо ж де ния цен зу ры, по ря док осу ще ст в ле ния вза им-ных рас че тов, а так же не ко то рые дру гие све де ния, не об хо ди мые для ве де ния кни го тор го вых опе ра ций. Их со ста ви те ля ми бы ли чи нов ни ки Глав но го управ ле ния по де лам пе ча ти 6 или са ми из да те ли и кни го тор-гов цы 7. Все эти спи ски, вы хо див шие не ре гу ляр но, со дер жат край не скуд ные све де ния о книж ных ма га зи нах С.-Пе тер бур га: в них ука зы ва-лось имя вла дель ца или на зва ние за ве де ния, его ад рес; ред ко — год ос-но ва ния и преж ний вла де лец. Составление таких перечней в конце XIX в. и особенно в начале XX сто ле тия пре сле до ва ло прак ти че скую цель, а имен но ре ги ст ра цию кни го тор го вых за ве де ний всей Рос сии. Та кая «пе ре пись» бы ла не об хо-ди ма для упо ря до че ния книж ной тор гов ли и ре ше ния це ло го ря да проб лем про фес сио наль но го со об ще ст ва, пре ж де все го пре дос тав ле-ния кре ди та, ус та нов ле ния пра вил рас че та ме ж ду тор гов ца ми, на ла жи-ва ния де ло вых кон так тов. Во прос ре ги ст ра ции об су ж дал ся на за се да-ни ях Рус ско го (Все рос сий ско го) об ще ст ва кни го про дав цев и из да те-386

Visual and cultural analysis of Nihon no hana 日本の花(1946), a book pairing pictures and poetry by diverse artists and poets on the theme of flowers. The book is part of the Pulverer Collection of Japanese illustrated books of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and is featured on The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book website. My commentary, along with a complete set of readable images of the book, may be found here: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/462/title/1.

Only Polish words from Marcin Paszkowski’s “Dictionary” have been published up to now while their Turkish equivalents have never been edited although two scholars (Ananiasz Zajączkowski 1938 and Stanisław Stachowski 1989) intended to do so. In this article the reasons for this situation are discussed and explained, as well as a solution is suggested as to how the source can be useful.

Статут ВКЛ з’яўляецца надзвычай каштоўным помнікам айчыннай кніжнай культуры. Ён не толькі аказаў вялікі ўплыў на развіццё прававой думкі Беларусі і ўсяго ўсходнееўрапейскага рэгіёна, стварыў спрыяльныя ўмовы для развіцця беларускай дзяржаўнасці, стаў важным дасягненнем у працэсе развіцця беларускай пісьмовай мовы, але таксама істотна паўплываў на развіццё беларускай кніжнай традыцыі.

Статут ВКЛ является чрезвычайно ценным памятником отечественной книжной культуры. Он не только оказал большое влияние на развитие правовой мысли Беларуси и всего восточноевропейского региона, создал благоприятные условия для развития белорусского государственности, стал важным достижением в процессе развития белорусского письменного языка, но также существенно повлиял на развитие белорусской книжной традиции.

The Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an extremely valuable monument of national literary culture. It not only had a great influence on the development of legal thought in Belarus and the the Eastern European region, has created favorable conditions for the development of Belarusian statehood, has been an important achievement in the development of the Belarusian written language, but also significantly influenced the development of the Belarusian book and literasy traditions.

Суша, А. А. Статут Вялікага Княства Літоўскага ў кантэксце кніжнай культуры Беларусі / Алесь Суша // Маладосць. – 2017. – № 4. – С. 130–138.

A "sociologia histórica das práticas de leitura", segundo Roger Chartier, move-se em meio à tensão operatória estabelecida entre, de um lado, o poder que o texto publicado (e/ou daqueles que estão por trás dele) procura exercer sobre o leitor e, de outro, a liberdade e a inventividade do leitor na produção de sentidos no contato com os textos. Neste artigo procuramos averiguar como esta tensão se manifestou em relação a um grupo especial de leitores: clérigos das Gerais do século XVIII, em sua maioria personagens notáveis, alguns pelos cargos que ocuparam, outros por seu envolvimento na Conjuração Mineira.
Numa primeira etapa, examinaremos que títulos e autores a Igreja Católica procurava disseminar entre os eclesiásticos e que lugar estes ocupavam como proprietários de bibliotecas na França, em Portugal e, em seguida, nas Gerais do século XVIII. Depois, analisaremos bibliotecas pertencentes a clérigos mineiros do período, submetendo os dados referentes aos livros (nomes dos autores, títulos, língua em que foram escritas as obras, assuntos e preços) a um tratamento quantitativo, identificando regularidades entre as diversas livrarias e descobrindo os traços singulares de cada uma delas. Explicaremos as recorrências e especificidades das bibliotecas correlacionando-as ao estado sacerdotal e, quando possível, à biografia dos clérigos que eram seus proprietários: suas idéias, seus comportamentos e seus escritos. Com isso, verificaremos como a composição das livrarias, em suas divisões por assunto e em suas peculiaridades, associava-se à trajetória pessoal de seus proprietários e ao estado clerical. De um lado, relacionaremos a prática e o discurso político dos mineiros ao universo literário e, de outro, observaremos se os livros anularam ou reforçaram as normas coletivas, sociais (e não legais), hegemônicas, de comportamento sexual. Desse modo, avaliaremos em que medida os livros influenciaram as condutas políticas e sexuais - ou, ao menos, se não o fizeram - e se os clérigos Inconfidentes se diferenciavam dos demais.

Со второй половины XVIII в. французское влияние сказывалось во многих европейских странах. Не избежала этого воздействия и Россия. Менялась правительственная идеология, но восприятие французской культуры оставалось в России неизменным. В XIX в. французский язык стал необходимым элементом образованного человека, он использовался в различных сферах общественной жизни России: как и в предыдущем столетии, являлся языком международного общения в области дипломатии и науки. Знакомство с французской культурой осуществлялось в процессе образования и воспитания, контактов с окружающими, посредством чтения, изучения французского языка, знание которого и в середине XIX в. оставалось условием успешной служебной карьеры (военной, гражданской, научной). Влияние французской РЕЦЕНЗИИ

Podjąłem się tematu tego referatu, by chociaż częściowo podjąć próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie: Czego możemy dowiedzieć się z testamentów o roli, którą odgrywały książki wśród przedstawicieli późnośredniowiecznego mieszczaństwa? Ze względu na obszerność zagadnienia, zdecydowałem się ograniczyć do testamentów mieszczańskich, ponieważ też o książkach będących w ich posiadaniu oraz o sposobach posługiwania się nimi, wiemy relatywnie wciąż niewiele. W tym celu przeprowadzę wstępna analizę testamentarnych zapisów dotyczących książek z testamentów mieszczan krakowskich oraz porównawczo odniosę się do rezultatów prac historyków, którzy prowadzili badania nad testamentami zachowanych z innych wybranych miast średniowiecznej Europy.

Kingo Style and Brorson Song – Traditional Hymn Singing in Denmark
From hymnals and Sound Recordings

This dissertation investigates folk hymn singing traditions in Denmark in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, which are rooted in the congregational singing from times of the Reformation. The melodic and vocal style of these traditions are closely connected to the hymnals of Thomas Kingo (1634-1703) and Hans Adolph Brorson (1694-1764). The folk hymn singing mainly thrived in environments of revivalism. The traditions were transmitted until modern times, where five musicologists made audio recordings with the groups of people who could still sing in the old style.
The dissertation draws on theory in the intersection of hymnology - with emphasis on the hymnals and the liturgy - and ethnomusicology - with emphasis on music as practice, agency, memory, and experience. In this interdisciplinary field, issues of hymnal-culture and audio recording are investigated. The dissertation explores four cases of Kingo- and Brorson singing, developing a method that combines the diachronic axis of the analysis, which explores processes of tradition and memory, with a synchronic axis that explores the social and religious interaction of participatory singing at a given moment of time. The study especially focuses on the way in which the singers vocally and musically experience and embody the social and confessional community, first of all in terms of the texture of the singing. The dissertation identifies features of unison, of heterophony and of dense textures. The study also investigates how the musical experience can stimulate not only community, but also conflicts in the relationship to others. The dissertation concludes that the study of sounding music can lead to new views on history, and that Danish history of song culture is more multifacetted than is commonly known.

Studies of networks complete studies of fields, and of communicative circulations. This Master thesis is a biographical studie of an author and journalist, Gustaf Montgomery (GM), his network in Sweden of the early 19th century. The starting point of the study is GM:s change of field from the conservative field to the liberal. The aim is to give explanations to this change and to describe how the change in turn effected the network. My method is source critical, wich is used partly for hermeneutical reasons, but also to remain objective.

Visual and cultural analysis of Nihon no yūshū 日本の憂愁 (1955), a posthumous book featuring prints, poems and other texts by the artist Onchi Kōshirō. The book is part of the Pulverer Collection of Japanese illustrated books of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and is featured on The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book website. My commentary, along with a complete set of readable images of the book, may be found here: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/461/title/1.

И КНИгОпРОДАВцЕВ (С.-пЕтЕРБуРг, 1909 г.; мОСКВА, 1912 г.) В конце XIX -начале XX в. в условиях экономического подъема, распространения грамотности и образования, успешного развития книгоиздания в России происходили перемены в сфере книготоргового дела. Капитализация экономики способствовала развитию книжной торговли на профессиональной основе. В этот период книгораспространение (продажа новых, подержанных, антикварных изданий) осуществлялось в магазинах, лавках, ларях, на рынках; в книготорговом деле организовывались акционерные общества 1 . Представители этой области деятельности отмечали то «исключительно важное положение», которое занимало книжное дело среди других отраслей торговли, и ту роль, которую оно играло «в умственной жизни целой страны» 2 ; они осознавали «общественное значение» книжной торговли как одного из «могущественнейших средств для распространения и развития просвещения и знаний» 3 : «Вряд ли есть другая коммерческая область, которая была бы столь тесно слита с делом народного образования, как область книгоиздательства и торговли книгами. В ее атмосфере зреет и растет насущная потребность света для умственной жизни России с ее необъятным пространством, оторванностью ее бесчисленных сел и деревень от железнодорожных линий» 4 . В начале XX в. торговля книгами все в большей степени охватывала не только столицы, но и провинцию, где обеспечением населения печатной продукцией занимались частные книготорговые заведения, губернские и уездные земства, просветительные общества. «Корень для прогресса и движения его -это провинция», -писал Н. Я. Башмаков М. К. Лемке в марте 1910 г. 5 Всего в России в 1900-е гг. по разным данным было открыто от 2000 до 3000 книготорговых заведений 6 .

Visual and cultural analysis of Nihon no sansui 日本の山水(1946), a book pairing pictures and poetry by diverse artists and poets on the theme of the Japanese landscape. This book is one of two copies of the title in the Pulverer Collection of Japanese illustrated books of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and is featured on The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book website. My commentary, along with a complete set of readable images of the book,  may be found here: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/456/title/1.

An introduction to Adriaen Verwer's annotated copy of Newton's first edition of the Principia (1687). Verwer was a Dutch merchant and amateur mathematician and linguist, who was one of the first Newtonians on the Continent. His extensive annotations give a unique insight into the reception of Newton's first edition of the Principia. The annotated copy has now been digitized by the Utrecht University Library, and can also be viewed on Annotated Books Online. Text in Dutch with English translation

Resenha do livro: ZAWISZA, E. L'âge d'or du péritexte: Titres et préfaces dans les romans du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Hermann, 2013.
Nos últimos anos, as pesquisas e a reflexão sobre os paratextos, em geral prefaciais, do século XVIII francês têm se multiplicado e avançado rumo a uma articulação profícua entre a visão de uma prática de intervenção cultural, polêmica em meio aos outros discursos da sociedade, e uma autorreflexão sobre as obras e os gêneros que se constituíam à época, com sua temporalidade própria. O termo paratexto, introduzido por Gérard Genette, é estratégico em seu duplo sentido, a partir de sua etimologia: é, a uma só vez, espaço do entorno, periférico e agregador de sentido para o texto principal e anteparo ou proteção a ele diante dos sentidos que o circundam na sociedade. Se paratexto é todo e qualquer texto a orbitar em torno do texto principal, seja no volume deste, seja em outros meios, o peritexto é o paratexto específico a integrar o livro, ajudando na formação de sentido com sua proximidade, com sua simbiose. No âmbito desse tipo de estudo, que é ao mesmo tempo estrutural e histórico-crítico – ao mergulhar seu interesse no século XVIII, época em que os peritextos tiveram função fundamental como elementos híbridos, paradoxalmente a um só tempo internos e externos ao texto principal –, um livro como L'âge d'or du péritexte. Titres et préfaces dans les romans du XVIIIe siècle, de Elisabeth Zawisza, pesquisadora da canadense University Queen's, serve como obra de síntese.

Visual and cultural analysis of Kawakami Sumio's Haraiso (Paradise, 1951), a handprinted book pairing text and images on the Christian paradise theme. The book is in the Pulverer Collection of Japanese illustrated books of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and is featured on The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book website. My commentary, along with a complete set of readable images of the book, may be found here: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/439/title/1.

The history of rapports between Jews and Christians is but a single chapter in the large-scale and cumbersome story of coexistence between different cultures and religions. In the Italian historiography a poor and rare confrontation and exchange between the history of Jews and the general history of Italy swept away the subject from the historical literature: Jewish people became <<invisible>>. This approach has largely neglected the insights stemming from a thorough analysis of the institutions and norms that presided over Jewish life, as well as the behaviors of Christians and Jews. These factors are essential to write a more comprehensive and accurate European history. This book tackles the changing interactions between Jews and Christians during the Modern Age to place conflicts and quarrels against the backdrop of such tangle of uninterrupted mutual relations between the two parties. Along this lines, this study calls into question a wellestablished and misleading interpretative path making a case for a history of separation and lack of communication between the two worlds. This books critically examines a wide range of topics: the definition of heresy and heretics, the banned books hunt, the all-out conviction of witchcraft and the total banning of relationships and sexual intercourses between Jewish people and Christians, the very lexicon of prejudice and segregation, the stake of rights and citizenship: through an all-inclusive examination of these problems, this study offers a new interpretative path useful to rewrite the history of each of these issues. What comes to light is a history of uninterrupted interactions and mutual exchanges among groupings and individuals frequently working together.

Visual and cultural analysis of Nihon no sansui 日本の山水(1946), a book pairing pictures and poetry by diverse artists and poets on the theme of the Japanese landscape. This book is one of two copies of the title in the Pulverer Collection of Japanese illustrated books of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and is featured on The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book website. My commentary, along with a complete set of readable images of the book, may be found here: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/463/title/1.

Studies of networks, fields and of communicative circulations complement each other. This master thesis is a biographical study of an author and journalist, Gustaf Montgomery GM, his network in Sweden of the early 19th century, and a study of his authorship and literary career. The starting-point of the study is GM:s change of field from the conservative to the liberal in 1832. The aim is to give explanations to this change and to describe how the change in turn effected the network. The method used is critical of sources. After a military career, GM:s cousins provided him with accommodation and library, introduced him to persons in their network. Among them was Pehr Adam Wallmark, a conservative journalist. Wallmark soon became GM:s editor, publisher and father-in-law. GM became a small-scale squire outside Stockholm. He participated in debates, both as a writer and as a politician. In a debate, however, GM stood closer to the liberals. This damaged his relation to the king Carl XI...

This article examines the significance of broadsheets in the context of the Protestant Reformation and the printing industry in Wittenberg. It explores the role of broadsheets in disseminating evangelical doctrines, facilitating scholarly debates, and mitigating internal disputes within the Reformation movement. The article also sheds light on the early print industry in Wittenberg, discussing the challenges faced by printers and the emergence of broadsheets as a valuable and quick source of income. While few broadsheets from that time have survived, the author reconstructs Wittenberg’s lost broadsheet history using archival documents and account books. The study provides insights into the economic and social aspects of printing practices during the early modern period.