Author library
An author's library is the private and working library of an important author who is of interest to posterity "as an object of research for science [or] as an expensive provenance copy".
Of particular interest are traces of use and reading, which allow conclusions to be drawn about how the author has dealt with other authors: The handling of books is written “on the basis of stains, dog-ears, cracks, markings, dedications, annotations, inserted notes, etc. " a. They enable literary and biographical knowledge.
Due to the size of such book collections, they are seldom purchased in their entirety, for example from academic libraries, which tend to restrict themselves to partial collections or the written estate. The German Literature Archive Marbach has an extensive holdings of closed writers' libraries from pre-papers and bequests , in Switzerland it is the Swiss Literature Archive in Bern.
Montaigne's “book tower” in Montaigne Castle can be seen as a prototype for an author's library . Examples from more recent times are the Villa Shatterhand , the Karl May Museum in Radebeul , or the library of Arno Schmidt in Bargfeld. Libraries of poets are often looked after, published as catalogs and scientifically evaluated by specially established foundations and literary societies.
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- ↑ a b c Swiss Literary Archives : Author Libraries . In: Quarto . Journal of the Swiss Literary Archives. No. 30/31 . Slatkine , Geneva December 2010, editorial, p. 7–8 ( online [accessed December 15, 2012]). online ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See List of Literary Societies .
