Download or read book Marsh s Library Dublin written by Muriel McCarthy and published by Four Courts Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsh's Library is a unique and historic institution. Ireland's first public library, it remains unchanged since it was founded three hundred years ago by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh. The magnificent collections dating from 1472 include books printed by the early scholar printers on a wide range of subjects including theology, philosophy, history, medicine, science, law, witchcraft, natural history, and travel. The collections in Marsh's give an insight into the 17th century mind and are a rich source for the history of ideas. This book tells the story of the founder's life and his determination to build a library for the Irish public and to provide it with the best and most current books by the finest European writers. It traces the history of the library, its eccentric keepers, and the many famous readers including Swift, Maturin, Moore, Mangan, Bram Stoker and James Joyce. The book also describes the many rare and early printings in the library, including Marsh's oriental collection. -- Publisher description.
Download or read book The Decorated Bindings in Marsh s Library Dublin written by Mirjam M. Foot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many books in original bindings in Marsh's Library, Dublin, a surprisingly large number are in decorated blind- or gold-tooled, calf, pigskin or goatskin bindings, which date from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The bindings come from all over Europe, ranging from Ireland to eastern Europe. While most were made in England, some fine and interesting examples from Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Holland are also included. In this volume, leading scholar Mirjam Foot first gives an overview of how books were bound by hand and then describes the bindings by country of origin, within each section treating them chronologically and by type of decoration. The detailed descriptions of the bindings are illustrated with 52 black and white photos and 8 colour plates.
Download or read book Judaeo Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century written by A.P. Coudert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh's Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent years. Although we have hosted many special seminars on such subjects as rare books, the Huguenots, and Irish church history, this was the first time that a seminar was held which was specifically related to the books in our own collection. It seems surprising that this type of seminar has never been held before although the reason is obvious. Since there is no printed catalogue of the Library scholars are not aware of its contents. In fact the collection of books by late seventeenth and early eighteenth century European authors on, for example, such subjects as biblical criticism, political and religious controversy, is one of the richest parts of the Library's collections. Some years ago we were informed that of the 25,000 books in Marsh's at least 5,000 English books or books printed in England were printed between 1640 and 1700.
Download or read book Scholar Bishop written by Narcissus Marsh and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713) was an English clergyman who spent his later life in Ireland, initially as Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and ultimately as Archbishop of Armagh. Despised by Jonathan Swift for his pietism and timidity, his achievements as churchman and scholar were impressive. Marsh's recollections, begun in 1690 and continued in diary form up to 1696, are by no means the pious platitudes of a conventional seventeenth-century clergyman. With sometimes startling candour, he recounts dreams and anecdotes revealing his struggle against worldly temptations, his resolute rejection of prospective wives, and his preoccupation with science, music, and the defence of learning in the anarchic context of Williamite revolution. The religious and political contexts are meticulously reconstructed in the editor's introduction. Transcribed from an early manuscript copy and supplemented by correspondence and contemporary assessments, Marsh's recollections illuminate a lost spiritual world. Their publication marks the tercentenary of the famous Dublin library which bears his name.
Download or read book A Short Catalogue of English Books in Archbishop Marsh s Library Dublin Printed Before 1641 1905 written by Newport John Davis White and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Making of Marsh s Library written by Muriel McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays commemorates the founding of the library (1701) by examining the world into which it was born. Contributions bring together a range of perspectives on Irish society, ranging from architecture to science to political and religious cultures.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books in the French Language Printed in Or Before A D 1715 written by Marsh's Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Source Book for Medi val History written by Oliver J. Thatcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Download or read book Lost Libraries written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Download or read book EST Des Beigef Werkes Musaeum written by Federico Borromeo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federico Borromeo founded the Ambrosiana library, art collection, and academy in Milan. Sacred Painting laid out the rules that artists should follow when creating religious art. Museum walked the reader through the Ambrosiana's collection, offering some of the earliest critiques to survive on works by Leonardo, Titian, and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
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