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- Title
How to Untangle Historic Libraries.
- Authors
Bruni, Flavia
- Abstract
After the dissolution of religious orders in Italy in the 1860s, several collections that had belonged to religious houses were merged into those of public libraries. As a result, the provenance of each item is often uncertain. Based on the case-study of the former Servite cloister of San Pier Piccolo in Arezzo, this paper shows how inventories can prove helpful to identify books from a dispersed collection despite the absence of any clear ownership inscription.
- Subjects
ITALY; PUBLIC libraries; RELIGIOUS libraries; LIBRARIES; MANAGEMENT of library materials; MARGINALIA
- Publication
Quaerendo, 2016, Vol 46, Issue 2/3, p165
- ISSN
0014-9527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15700690-12341350