Contents

pp v-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xvi

Acknowledgements

pp xvii-xvii

Abbreviations

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - DEALERS AND THE MARKET

pp 15-16

1 - Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bibliophilic Clubs, and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1878–1939

pp 17-30

2 - Selling Middle English Manuscripts to North America up to 1945

pp 31-40

3 - Dollars and Drama: Early English Plays and the American Book Trade 1906–1926

pp 41-54

4 - The Fates of the Manuscripts from the Vallicelliana Library of Rome at the End of the Nineteenth Century

pp 55-64

5 - Fuelling the Market: Sales from Austrian monasteries 1919–1938

pp 65-74

6 - Jacques Rosenthal’s Marketing Strategies: An Analysis of the Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta (1925 and 1928)

pp 75-86

7 - From Drawing Room to Sale-room: Albums of Medieval Manuscript Cuttings in the 1920s

pp 87-98

8 - Buying and Breaking with Philip and Otto

pp 99-114

Part II - BUYERS

pp 115-116

9 - Illuminations from Northern and Central Italy in the Collection of the Dealer Vittorio Forti

pp 117-144

10 - The One That Got Away: How Lord Brotherton Lost Out on a Book and Founded a Library

pp 145-154

11 - Becoming a Gentleman Collector: Alfred Chester Beatty’s Influence on Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian’s Manuscript Collection

pp 155-168

12 - A Private Library and the Making of the Middle Ages in Florence: Piero Ginori Conti’s Collection

pp 169-178

13 - The “Calenzio Deal” and the Auction of the Oldest Vallicelliana Codices, 1874–1916

pp 179-188

14 - The Acquisitions of Florentine Public Libraries 1900–1935

pp 189-204

15 - Private Purses and “National” Possessions: The French Acquisition from the Phillipps Library (1908)

pp 205-220

16 - Provenance Research on Lost Manuscripts: The Case of Louvain University Library (1919–1940)

pp 221-232

17 - To Buy, or Not to Buy? Market Forces and the Making of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Collections

pp 233-246

18 - Women as Owners and Collectors in de Ricci’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada

pp 247-266

19 - “A most fascinating and dangerous pursuit”: The Book Collecting of Isabella Stewart Gardner

pp 267-276

20 - The Collector, Edith Beatty (1886–1952)

pp 277-304

21 - Paul Durrieu (1855–1925): Art Collecting and Scholarly Expertise

pp 305-320

Part III - SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS

pp 321-322