Descrizione del progetto
Riscoprire i libri della biblioteca rinascimentale
All’inizio del XVI secolo, Fernando Colombo (Hernando Colón) (1488-1539) cercò di creare una «biblioteca universale» a Siviglia. Non si trattava solamente di un archivio di tomi stampati: al suo interno, infatti, era presente una moltitudine di opere effimere quali pamphlet e almanacchi, che la resero una risorsa storica ineguagliabile. Sebbene la raccolta sia andata in gran parte dispersa successivamente alla morte di Colombo, molte pubblicazioni furono smerciate da librai d’antiquariato. Il progetto FILOL, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di localizzare questo materiale mancante, in modo da renderlo accessibile tramite la banca dati «Il libro delle epitomi di Fernando Colombo». FILOL effettuerà un’operazione di riferimento incrociato tra tutti i cataloghi originali della biblioteca e impiegherà un nuovo metodo di ricerca che prevede l’uso degli strumenti bibliografici utilizzati dallo stesso mercato dei libri d’antiquariato, agevolando il tracciamento presente e passato dei primi libri stampati, nonché delle opere effimere.
Obiettivo
The overarching aim of the FILOL project is to track down for the first time the dispersed books from Hernando Colón’s “Universal Library”. In the early 16th century, Hernando Colón (1488-1539) established in Seville the first documentation centre in the Western world, in which he aimed to gather copies of “every book on every subject in every language”. Almost the entirety of his collection was comprised of printed books. Unlike other Renaissance intellectuals, Colón collected not only fine editions but also the products of popular publishing, such as pamphlets, almanacs and other ephemera. Colón’s library was, therefore, the first official repository of the written products of what was considered universal culture, destined in most cases to disappear precisely because of their physical fragility. To manage the 15,000 books he collected, Colón designed a revolutionary system of cross-referenced catalogues relating to the authors, subjects, extracts and summaries of his volumes. After Colón’s death, most of his books were dispersed, and today only about 4,000 volumes from his original collection survive in the Biblioteca Colombina in Seville. In addition to extensive losses immediately following Colón’s death, books continued to go missing from the BC into the late 19th century, frequently winding up on the antiquarian book market. The FILOL project will attempt to describe and locate a significant portion of the Universal Library’s dispersed volumes, making them available in a catalogue hosted in the open-access database Book of Books, developed by the team of the UCPH project “Hernando Colón’s Book of Books”. This will be accomplished through a cross-reference examination of the complete set of Colón’s library catalogues and an innovative research methodology focused on the analysis of the antiquarian book market’s bibliographic tools to track the mobility of early printed books in the modern and contemporary age.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-PF - MSCA-PFCoordinatore
1165 Kobenhavn
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