Treasuries of Knowledge

Frances Maguire: ‘Printed Receipts and Personal Solvency: Collecting the Paperwork of Hearth Tax’

While treasuries may be viewed as repositories, they can also be parts of institutions where...

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Sietske Fransen and Katherine Reinhart: 'Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society'

Discussion of the project on The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society.

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Matt Symonds: 'Archeology of Reading'

Discussion of the Archeology of Reading project and the digital archive.

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Helen Kemp: ‘All My Manuscripts Papers of My Own Hand to be Carefully Preserved in the Study of the Said Library’

Early modern scholars collected information for a variety of reasons. During the seventeenth...

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Stéphane Jettot: ‘Treasuries of Refugees: The Collection of Genealogical Archives by Exiled Jacobites in the Reign...

Discussion of Irish Jacobites' conflicts over the role and ownership of the Great Book of Lecan...

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Brooke Palmieri: ‘A Little World of Strangeness’

Here are some excerpts from the first printed book in Philadelphia, The Temple of Wisdom for the...

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Marco Schnyder: ‘Knowledge, Action, and Identity: The Swiss Merchant Nation in Lyon and its Archive (17th-18th cent...

“This document is very favourable to the Nation, and entirely confirms the Patente of Henry 4...

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Djoeke van Netten: ‘Collecting and Guarding Information just before and after the Establishment of the Dutch East I...

The archives of the famous and quite successful Dutch United East India Company (VOC; 1602-1799),...

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Fabio Antonini: ‘Italian Archives: Administration and Scholarship’

In 1632, the Procurators of Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice employed an erudite Benedictine monk,...

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Sundar Henny: ‘Masters of Useless Information: Private Papers as Treasuries in Seventeenth-Century Zurich’

If you move to England and want to open a bank account you have to produce a proof of address....

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Emma Spary: 'Plants as Tributes and Treasures in Early Modern France'

Discussion of collecting of spices as curiosities, with only a gradual move to commodities and...

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Eric Ketelaar: 'A Gentleman’s Treasuries in the Dutch Republic'

In “De Huysbou”, a treatise on architecture, town planning and civil engineering, Simon Stevin...

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