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The structure of library holdings in Croatia in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries
Aleksandar Stipčević
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The structure of library holdings in Croatia in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries
On the basis of analysis of inventories of church and private libraries from the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries it is possible to reconstruct library holdings which were available to the Croatian humanists, especially those in towns along the coast and in Zagreb. Exceptionally good connections of these Croatian towns with Venice - the most important centre of printing and bookselling of the time - facilitated a prompt circulation of books and ideas and therefore the intergration of the Croats into the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance Europe. The preserved inventiories also enable observation of a progressive laicization of library holdings, especially from the fifteenth century, when the number of religious books started to decrease gradually in favour of books on natural science and medicine as well as works by the ancients. The owners of libraries have also changed. Whereas earlier libraries had been exclusively owned by churches, monasteries and priests, from the fourteenth century libraries are more and more owned by merchants, doctors and members of other secular professions.
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Hrčak ID:
14601
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Datum izdavanja:
30.9.1984.
Posjeta: 1.875 *