- Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
- A cura di Roberta Ricci
Poggio Bracciolini, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, and the Formation of the Goodhart Collection of Fifteenth-Century Books at Bryn Mawr College
- Eric L. Pumroy
- © 2020 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.14
The Poggio Bracciolini conference was dedicated to Bryn Mawr alumna Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994) one of the leading Poggio scholars of her generation and the editor of the only major collection of Poggio’s letters in English, Two Renaissance Book Hunters (Columbia University Press, 1974). Gordan and her father, Howard Lehman Goodhart (1887-1951) were also responsible for building one of the great collections of 15th century printed books in America, most of which is now at Bryn Mawr College. This paper draws upon Goodhart’s correspondence with rare book dealers and the extensive notes on his books to survey the strengths of the collection and to examine the process by which he built the collection and worked with rare book dealers in the difficult Depression and World War II years, the period when he acquired most of his books. The paper also considers Goodhart’s growing connections with scholars of early printing as his collection and interests grew, in particular the work of Margaret Bingham Stillwell, the editor of Incunabula in American Libraries (1940).
- Keywords:
- Phyllis Goodhart Gordan,
- Howard Lehman Goodhart,
- book collecting,
- incunabula,
Bryn Mawr College, United States
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- Gordan P.W.G. 1973, Of What Use are Old Books? A talk given 4 April 1972 to celebrate the adding of the one-thousandth incunabulum to the Bryn Mawr Library, Privately printed by the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library.
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Titolo del capitolo
Poggio Bracciolini, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, and the Formation of the Goodhart Collection of Fifteenth-Century Books at Bryn Mawr College
Autori
Eric L. Pumroy
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.14
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Anno di pubblicazione
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
Sottotitolo del libro
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016
Curatori
Roberta Ricci
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Numero di pagine
220
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3
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978-88-6453-967-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-968-3
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Atti
ISSN della collana
2239-3307
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6230