We have recently purchased Early European Books Collections 1 -3 from ProQuest.
Early European Books provides scholars with access to the printed record of early modern Europe, drawing together an array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
Collection 1 offers a survey of the Royal Library’s holdings of items listed in Lauritz Nielsen’s Dansk Bibliografi 1482–1600 and its supplement (1919–1996). The Royal Library’s Danish and Icelandic imprints produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are included, from the earliest works printed in Denmark – Breviarium Ottoniense (Odense Breviary) and Guillaume Caoursin’s De obsidione et bello Rhodiano (‘On the siege and war of Rhodes’), both printed by Johann Snell in Odense in 1482 (Lauritz Nielsen 29 and 39 respectively) – through to works by the astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) issued from his private press at Uranienborg, on the island of Hven, before 1597. Other works of Tycho in this collection include his De nova et nullius ævi memoria prius visa stella (‘On the new and never previously seen star’), published in Copenhagen in 1573 (Lauritz Nielsen 429).
Collection 2 contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections: The Nencini Aldine Collection, Marginalia, Incunabula, and Sacred Representations.
Collection 3 contains 3 million pages in total, from more than 10,000 volumes scanned at four different libraries. It encompasses works in major European languages, printed in the cities which led the explosion of the print industry in the early modern era, such as Nuremberg, Basel, Leiden, Paris and Venice. The collection contains the founding works of modern sciences such as botany, anatomy and astrology, together with accounts of travel, exploration and warfare, and influential works of literature, philosophy and humanist thought. In the field of religion, users will find editions of the works of the Church Fathers, early Bible editions in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and vernacular translations, missals, psalters and breviaries, Protestant sermons and tracts, and Counter-Reformation publications of the Catholic Church.
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