After cataloging editions XVI present in the old card catalog, nicknamed

After cataloging editions XVI present in the old card catalog, nicknamed "cedulari" which was finalized in February 2012, was to describe the second phase of this century print file format for photos Cover. The completion of this task, consisting of 350 copies of the catalog, we can finally make available to the public this important collection and to evaluate it properly. plexus
The total number of editions of five hundred up to 11,077, of which 1,201 correspond to postincunables (books printed between 1501 and 1520) and 16,850 copies. According to what we currently have with the CRAI Library Book Library is the state custody more editions and copies of this century.
According to the geographical area, a preliminary analysis shows the superiority of the French press, with 3,950 editions, and Italian editions with 3289, while the Spanish and Catalan amount 1,608 476.
Continuing the European press, follow the German, with 589 years, the Swiss, with 495, and Belgium, with 439. Other countries are also present, although with much lower proportions. This is the case of the Netherlands, Poland, Austria and England.
As for cities, Lyon is absolute protagonist, with 2,322 editions, followed by Venice, with 1,882. Paris 1486 editions become the dominant center in the third collection. The rest is split between Basel (449) Antwerp (398), Cologne (365), a multitude of Italian cities and other European cities such as Frankfurt, Leuven, Strasbourg, Geneva, Toulouse, Rouen, Augsburg, Leiden, Nuremberg Leipzig, Amsterdam and London.
In the state include Salamanca, 364 editions, Alcalá de Henares, 243, Valencia, 207, Madrid, 180, and Zaragoza, 176. In the pre-eminence of the Catalan Barcelona is overwhelming, with 430 issues regarding the 23 Tarragona 16 and Lleida.
Although it is currently impossible to provide reliable figures on the composition of the raw bottom XVI, the book is clear predominance of religious themes (theology, sermons, plexus religious controversies, comments in the Bible, meditation, etc.) and legal. As for the other disciplines, the catalog offers generous figures for books philology, philosophy, history and science. For example, there are 167 grammars, dictionaries 185, 534 history books, 113 editions of astronomy and physics 110. Are scarce, however, literary works, while 151 Bibles preserved.
Languages also characterize the collection of five hundred. No surprise the 8949 editions in 1170 in the Latin or Spanish. The Italian is the third language in this catalog, with 693 years, followed by Greek (79) Catalan plexus (74) French (71) and Hebrew (26).
Another important variants to assess the background is the format of books. It is interesting to note the predominance of small-sized books, in the eighth with 3,998 editions to follow the folio, with 3,709, and fourth with 2,834. Other formats small, such as in the twelfth and sixteenth are compared to those already mentioned, minority.
If we summarize in a few lines a rich collection could not fail to mention, as scientific books, the Astronomicum Caesareum, Peter Appian (Ingolstadt, 1540), and herbal Stirpium commentarii distinguished plexus history of Leonhart plexus Fuchs (Basel, 1542), both xylographs colored by hand. Among the medical books have the first and second edition of the masterpiece humani corporis makes Anatomy libri septem, plexus Andreas Vesalius (Basel, 1543 and 1555). Copy editing princes I quattro libri dell'architettura Andrea Palladio (Venice, 1570), has the distinction of containing the bookplate and some Apostille Spanish architect Juan de Herrera.
The collection has two fundamental bibles: the polyglot Antwerp, Christophe Plantin printed, edited plexus by Benito Arias Montano (Antwerp 1571-1573), plexus id Alcalá de Henares, printed on the initiative of Cardinal Cisneros between 1514 and 1520.
Among the religious books also include two rare and beautiful editions: martyrdom Dominicano left the workshop of Antonio Alvarez Seville in 1550, with magnificent xylographs and a Book of Hours printed on vellum for Thielman Kerver in Paris in 1503 unfortunately lacking multiple sheets. The collection is also the first edition plexus of the work Evangelicae plexus historiae imagine (Antwerp, 1593), the Jesuit Jerome Mallorcan Christmas, profusely illustrated with pictures of drawings plexus by Flemish engravers mostly Bernardino Passeri.
If we mention some of the many editions of the Greek and Latin classics speak of the works of Aristotle, Greek, edited Erasmus (Basel, 1531), the Odyssey of Homer, tr