Main entry:

Hobson, Anthony, 1921-2014, author.

Title & Author:

Renaissance book collecting : Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their books and bindings / Anthony Hobson.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
©1999

Description:

xix, 275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge. Typeset in 12/15 pt Bembo"--Title page verso.
"Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Library of Printed Books"--P. 141-201.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index.
Two Renaissance Book Collectors -- 1. Grolier: the early years -- 2. Grolier in Italy 1515-1521 -- 3. -- Grolier in France -- 4. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza -- 5. Venetian sixteenth-century bookbinders -- Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Library of Printed Books -- Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's library of printed books -- Index of printers and publishers -- Index of editors, commentators and translators -- Index of plaquette bindings. App. 1. Grolier's bindings classified by workshop -- App. 2. Grolier's petition to Francis I -- App. 3. Anne Briconnet's coins and medals -- App. 4. The Venetian catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Greek manuscripts -- App. 5. Bindings by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo) -- App. 6. Andronicus Nucius's power of attorney -- App. 7. Bindings by the Cicero Binder -- App. 8. Bindings by the Fugger Binder -- App. 9. Venetian bindings by Anthoni Lodewijk -- App. 10. Bindings by the Agnese Binder (Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino?) -- App. 11. Bindings by the Emblematic Binder
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book studies, and compares, two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a catalogue of the latter's printed books is provided for the first time. Both men were greatly influenced by experience of Italy." "Grolier has been called 'the Prince of Bibliophiles'; the books he commissioned have long been famous. This is the first full account of his life for ninety years. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet, historian, Greek scholar and Arabist. He served as the Emperor's Ambassador in Venice (1540-6), to the Council of Trent (1545-6), and to the Pope (1547-52). In Venice he set out to form for Spain a collection of Greek manuscripts to rival that being formed for France by Francis I's agents."--Book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521651298 (hardback)
9780521651295 (hardback)

Subject:

Grolier, Jean, 1479-1565.
Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego, 1503-1575.
Grolier, Jean, 1479-1565 Library.
Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego, 1503-1575 Library.
Book collecting Europe, Western History 16th century.
Books Europe, Western History 16th century.
Book Collecting history
Bookbinding history
Bibliophilie Europe de l'Ouest Histoire 16e siècle.
Livres Europe de l'Ouest Histoire 16e siècle.
Books
Book collecting.
Particuliere bibliotheken.
Boekbanden.
Book collecting Europe History 16th century.
Book collecting Europe.
Book collectors Biography.
Private libraries Europe.
Western Europe.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.
Typefaces (Type evidence) Bembo.

Added entries:

Cambridge University Press, publisher, printer.

Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their books and bindings

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 210582
Call No.: Z987.5.E85 H6 1999
Status: Available