Renaissance book collecting : Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their books and bindings /
"This book 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 catalogue of the latter's printed books is provided for the first...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
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1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Two Renaissance Book Collectors
- 1. Grolier: the early years
- 2. Grolier in Italy 1515-1521
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- Grolier in France
- 4. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
- 5. Venetian sixteenth-century bookbinders
- Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Library of Printed Books
- 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. App. 1. Grolier's bindings classified by workshop
- App. 2. Grolier's petition to Francis I
- App. 3. Anne Briconnet's coins and medals
- App. 4. The Venetian catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Greek manuscripts
- App. 5. Bindings by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo)
- App. 6. Andronicus Nucius's power of attorney
- App. 7. Bindings by the Cicero Binder
- App. 8. Bindings by the Fugger Binder
- App. 9. Venetian bindings by Anthoni Lodewijk
- App. 10. Bindings by the Agnese Binder (Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino?)
- App. 11. Bindings by the Emblematic Binder