Collectors' Knowledge: What Is Kept, What Is Discarded = Aufbewahren oder wegwerfen: Wie Sammler entschieden (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013. Hardcover. Cream & red boards, 464 pp., some BW illus. As New. Item #143734
ISBN: 9789004262140
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. A collection of 19 essays: 10 written in English, 9 in German. Draws "on case studies from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, covering Europe and beyond. ... Investigates how knowledge was acquired, organized and sometimes lost. It examines collections of texts and objects -- libraries, textbooks, miscellanies, commonplace books, data collections pertaining to historical events, encyclopedias, royal and ducal treasures, curiosity cabinets, galleries and museums -- to uncover the processes of accumulation, organization, selection and rejection that have shaped learning. The essays emphasize the complex relationship between the intentions of collectors and the limitations they encountered." (back cover).
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