Biblioteca Riccardiana
The Biblioteca Riccardiana is a public library in Florence . It is located in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi . The library was founded in 1600 as a private library by Riccardo Romolo Riccardi and has been a state library since 1815. The current director since 1996 is Giovanna Lazzi , who also heads the manuscript department.
history
At the end of the 17th century, Francesco Riccardi's collection was expanded with the dowry of his wife Cassandra Capponi. Her father Vincenzio Capponi (1605–1688), a homme de lettres and scholar from Galileo Galileo's circle , had bequeathed a large part of his extensive library to her. A preserved user directory of the library shows that the collection was available to researchers and scholars from 1737 onwards. In the 18th century, the Riccardi family got increasingly into financial difficulties, which they tried to counter by selling the library. So that the collection would not leave Florence, it was taken over by the city in 1813 and nationalized two years later. It has been open to the public ever since.
Stocks
The library houses a number of valuable manuscripts, including some minuscule manuscripts from the New Testament. In 1756 Giovanni Lami (1697–1770) compiled a catalog of the manuscripts. The inventory includes the arithmetic book of Filippo Calandri (Ricc. 2669), of which the library also has a copy of the incunabula , which was printed in Florence in 1491.
See also
Web links
- Website of the Biblioteca Riccardiana (Italian, English)
- Entry at Manus online
- Salomone Morpurgo: I Manoscritti della R. Biblioteca Riccardiana . Volume I, Rome, 1900. Catalog of the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Italian, call numbers Ricc. 1002 to Ricc. 1700. At: internet archive via Open Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel overview of the library ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2012 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. ; List of directors in the Dizionario dei bibliotecari italiani of the AIB
- ↑ In the Riccardiana there are numerous manuscripts from his hand, cf. Martino Capucci: Capponi, Vincenzio. In: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani 19, 1976 ( online at treccani.it )
- ↑ Website of the library (ital.)
- ^ Giovanni Lami: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Riccardiana adservantur . Liburni, ex typographio Antonii Sanctinii & sociorum, 1756. (online) ; PDF version of the library ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 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.
