Collectors' knowledge
Subtitle: what is kept, what is discarded = Aufbewahren oder wegwerfen : wie sammler entscheiden
By: edited by Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony T. Grafton, and Paul Michel ; with the assistance of Adam Blauhut
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- volume 227
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9789004262140; 9789004262164
Subjects: Collectors and collecting; Congresses; Philosophy; History; Learning and scholarship; Methodology; Popular culture; Art
Other titles: Aufbewahren oder wegwerfen
Description: "Drawing on case studies from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, covering Europe and beyond, Collectors’ Knowledge: What is Kept, What is Discarded investigates how knowledge was acquired, organized and sometimes lost. It examines collections of texts and objects—libraries, textbooks, miscellanies, commonplace books, data collections pertaining to historical events, encyclopedias, royal and ducal treasures, curiosity cabinets, galleries and museums—to uncover the processes of accumulation, organization, selection and rejection that have shaped learning. The essays emphasize the complex relationship between the intentions of collectors and the limitations they encountered—issues of format, presentation, display and storage—as well as outside forces that disrupted their aims, including pillage and natural disasters"--
Notes: The papers collected here were first presented at two international workshops, the first on 2-4 June 2008 at Zurich  Central Library, the second on 13-15 May 2010 at the Benedictine Convent of St John in Mustair, now a World Heritage site.

Includes bibliographical references and index.