Gisbertus Voetius on the Necessity of Locating, Collecting and Preserving Early Printed Books.
In the revised edition of his manual for students which he published in 1651, the Utrecht Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) included a discussion of the methodology of bibliographical research. He noted that in many editions, not just of theological works, the texts had been much ch...
| Publicado en: | Quaerendo Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 45 - 57 |
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