SECTION 1: TECHNOLOGIES OF USE
CASE 1 MAKING BOOKS, USING BOOKS
1. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Vnderweysung der Messung . . . . [Nüremberg: n.p.] 1525.
2. Hieronymus Hornschuch (c. 1573-1616). Orthotypographia. Leipzig: Michaël Lantzenberger excudebat, 1608.
CASE 2 MARKING BOOKS
1. The Holy Bible. London: by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, 1627. With early seventeenth-century fore-edge gilt decoration and embroidered binding, attributed to the Nuns of Little Gidding.
2. Léger Duchenne, ed (d. 1588). L. Annei Senecae Corvbensis De Moribvs Liber Vnus. Paris: Ex officina viduae P. Attaingant, 1556. Copy annotated by a student at Paris c. 1560. On Loan from a Private Collection.
3. Thomas Lodge (1558-1625). A Looking glasse, for london and England. [London: n.p., c. 1600.] Copy annotated, in multiple hands, for dramatic use c. 1606.
CASE 3 SIZE
1. Johann Jacob Wecker (1528-1586). Practica Medicinæ Generalis . . . . Basel: Per Hieron. Frobenium, & eius affinem, 1585.
2. William Cowper (1666-1709). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, With Figures Drawn After The Life By Some Of The Best Masters in Europe . . . . Oxford: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1698.
CASE 4 TITLE
1. Robert Burton (1577-1640). THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What it is, With all the kinds causes, symptoms, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically opened & cut vp By Democritus Junior. With a Satyricall Preface Conducing to the following Discourse. The Sixt Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Omne tulit punctum. qui miscuit utile dulci. Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps. 1651.
CASE 5 PLATE
1. Robert Hooke (1635-1703). Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions Of Minute Bodies Made By Magnifying Glasses. London: by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, 1665.
CASE 6 LAYOUT
1. Terence. P. Terentii Afri Poetae Lepidissimi Comaediae. Paris: Apud Ionnam de Roigny, 1552.
2. Cornelius de Schryver (1482-1558), ed. Ex P. Terentii Comoediis Optimae, copiosissimae atq[ue] etiam certissimae colloquendi formulae . . . . Paris: Excudebat Christianus Wechelus, 1533.
3. Giovanni Fabrini (1516-1580), ed. Il Terentio Latino, Comentato In Lingua Toscana, e ridotto à la sua vera latinità . . . . Venice: Appresso Giouambattista Sessa e fratelli, 1575.
4. Richrd Bernard (1568-1641), ed. Terence in English . . . . Cambridge: Ex Officina Johannis Legat, 1598.
CASE 7 BOOK
1. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. London: by Robert Barker, 1611.
2. The Second Tome Of The Holie Bible Faithfvlly Translated Into English Ovt of the Avthentical Latin. Douai: by Lavrence Kellam, 1610.
3. James Shirley (1596-1666). Hide Parke A Comedie. London: by Tho. Cotes, for Andrew Crooke, and William Cooke, 1637. Bound together with other separately printed editions of Shirley's plays in a late seventeenth-century volume.
4. Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637). The Works of Beniamin Jonson. London: by W. Stansby, 1616.
SECTION 2: PARTS AND WHOLES: FROM MATTER TO METHOD
CASE 8 BOOKENDS: PREFACE AND ERRATA
1. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Il saggiatore. Rome: Appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.
2. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Il saggiatore. Rome: Appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.
3. John Donne (1572-1631). Pseudomartyr. London: by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610.
CASE 9 INDEX
1. William Prynne (1600-1669). Histrio-mastix. The Players Scovrge, Or Actors Tragaedie . . . . London: by E. A. and W. I. for Michael Sparke, 1633.
2. George Herbert (1593-1633). The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: by Thom. Buck, and Roger Daniel, 1633. First Edition.
3. George Herbert (1593-1633). The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. [Cambridge:] by T. Buck, and R. Daniel, 1633. Second Edition.
4. John Cowell (1554-1611). The Interpreter: Or Booke Containing the Signification of Words . . . . Cambridge: by Iohn Legate, 1607.
CASE 10 DIAGRAM
1. Jacobus Sylvius [Jacques Dubois] (1478-1555). Methodvs Sex Liborvm Galeni In Differentiis Et causis morborum & symptomatum . . . . Venice: Ex officina Erasmiana Vincentij Valgrisij, 1554.
2. Conrad Lagus (d.1546). Methodica Ivris Vtriusqve Traditio . . . . Lyon: Apud Seb. Gryphivm, 1544.
3. Abraham Fraunce (1587-1633). The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the præcepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe. London: by William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman, 1588.
4. Georg Fabricius (1589-1645). Thesaurus Philosophicus Sive Tabulae Totius Philosophiae . . . . Braunsweig: Typis et sumptibus Andreae Dunckeri, 1624
CASE 11 COMMONPLACE THINKING
1. Thomas Ducke and Edward Jones. Manuscript commonplace book, compiled c. 1619 and 1686.
2. Anon. "Collections." Manuscript legal commonplace book, probably compiled by a student at the Inns of Court, c. 1630. On Loan From a Private Collection.
3. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). Essais de Michel Seignevr de Montaigne. Cinquiesme edition. Paris: Chez Abel L'Angelier, 1588.
4. John Florio (c. 1553-1625), tr. Essayes Written In French by Michael Lord of Montaigne . . . London: by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613. Copy annotated in England, c. 1625. On Loan From a Private Collection.
CASE 12 CASE THINKING
1. John Foxe (1516-1587). The seconde Volume Of The Ecclesiasticall Historie, conteyning The Acts And Monvments of Martyrs . . . . London: by Peter Short, 1597.
2. Edmund Plowden (1518-1585), Les Comentaries, ou les Reportes de Edmunde Plowden . . . . [London:] In ædibus Richardi Tottelli, 1571.
3. Thomas Ashe (fl. 1600-1618), ed. Abridgement des touts les Cases Reportes alarge per Mounsieur Plowden . . . . London: for the Company of Stationers, 1607. On Loan From a Private Collection.
SECTION 3: THE HOW-TO BOOK
CASE 13 HOW TO EXPRESS YOURSELF
1. Thomas Wilson (c. 1525-1581). The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence . . . . London: by Ihon Kingston, 1567.
2. John Bulwer (fl. 1648-1654). Chirologia: Or The Natvrall Langvage Of The Hand. London: by Tho. Harper, 1644.
3. Ambrosio de Salazar (c. 1575-c. 1640). Iardin de Flores Santas. Paris: En la tienda de G. Robinot, 1616.
4. The Booke of Common Prayer. London: by Robert Barker, 1606.
CASE 14 HOW TO DO THINGS
1. Hannah Woolley (fl. 1670). The Queen-like Closet, Or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preseruing, Candying and Cookery. London: for Richard Lowndes.1672.
2. Anon. De Sectione mensaria. n.p., c. 1600s.
3. Peter Lowe (c.1550-c.1612). A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrvrgerie. London: by Thomas Purfoot, 1612.
4. Joseph Moxon (1627-1700). Mechanick Exercises: Or The Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the Art of Tvrning. London: for Joseph Moxon, 1680.
5. William Leybourn (1626-1716). The Compleat Surveyor, Containing the whole Art of Surveying of Land. London: by R. and W. Leybourn, for G. Sawbridge, 1657.
CASE 15 HOW TO BE SOMEBODY
1. Richard Brathwaite (c. 1588-1673). The English Gentleman . . . . London: by Iohn Haviland, 1630.
2. John Bulwer (fl. 1648-1654). Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform'd: Or, The Artificiall Changling . . . . London: by William Hunt, 1653.
3. Adriaan van de Spiegel (1578-1625). De Hvmani Corporis Fabrica, in Opera. Amsterdam: n.p., 1645. Plates by Julius Casserius.
CASE 16 HOW TO LOOK AFTER YOURSELF
1. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654). The English Physitian: Or, An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation. London: by Peter Cole, 1652.
2. William Perkins (1558-1602). The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience. London: by Iohn Legatt, 1628.
3. Robert Burton (1577-1640). The Anatomy of Melancholy . . . . Oxford: by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, 1621.
CASE 17 HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY
1. Willem Lodewycksz (fl. 1598). Premier Livre De L'Histoire De La Navigation Avx Indes Orientales, Par Les Hollandois. Amsterdam: chez Cornille Nicolas, 1609.
2. Thomas Powell (c. 1572- c. 1635). Tom of All Trades. Or The Plaine Path-way to Preferment. London: by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Benjamen Fisher, 1631
3. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667). The Golden Grove. A Choice Manual, Containing What is to be Believed, Practiced and Desired or Prayed for; the Prayers being fitted to the several Days of the Week. London: for J. M. for R. Royston, 1685.
4. Pierre Berault (fl. 1680-1700). A Nosegay Or Miscellany of several Divine Truths, for the Instruction of all Persons; but especially for the consolation of a troubled Soul. London: by T. M. for the Author, 1685.
5. Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Sylva Sylvarvm: Or, A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centvries. London: by J. H. for William Lee, 1628.
SECTION 4: DIMENSIONAL THINKING
CASE 18 MEASURING SPACE
1. Ottavio Fabri (fl. 1598). L'Vso Della Sqvadra Mobile Con La Qvale Per Teorica Et Per Pratica Si Misura Geometricamente ogni distanza . . . . Venice: appresso Francesco Barilleti, 1598.
2. Leonard Digges (d. 1571). A Geometrical Practise, named Pantometria, diuided into three Bookes, Longimetra, Planimetra and Sterometria . . . . London: by Henrie Bynneman, 1571.
3. Leonhard Zubler (1563-1611). Fabrica et vsvs Instrvmenti Chorographici: Das ist, Newe Planimetrische Beschreibung . . . . Basel: in verlegung Ludwig Königs, 1607.
CASE 19 COORDINATING TIME
1. Peter Apian (1495-1552). Astronomicum Cæsareum. [Ingolstadt: n.p., 1540]
CASE 20 TOWARD ANOTHER DIMENSION
1. Euclid. The Elements Of Geometrie . . . With a very fruitfull Praeface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe Mathematicall Sciences. London: by Iohn Daye, 1570
2. Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718). Epitome Cosmografica. Cologne: Ad istanza di Andrea Poletti in Venetia, 1693.
3. Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724). Marmora Oxoniensia Ex Arundellianis . . . . Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1676.
CASE 21 REPRESENTING THE UNSEEN
1. Johan Remmelin (1583-1632). A Survey Of The Microcosme: Or, The Anatomy of the Bodies of Man and Woman. London: for Dan. Midwinter, and Tho. Leigh, 1702.
2. Antonio Maria Cospi (fl. 1643). Il Givdice Criminalista. Florence: Nella Stamperia di Zanobi Pignoni, 1643.
CASE 22 PLACE, TIME, MEMORY
1. Filippo Gesualdo (d. 1619). Plvtosofia . . . Nella quale si spiega l'Arte della Memoria. Padua: Appresso Paulo Megietti, 1592.
2. Heinrich Döbel (fl. 1707). Collegium Mnemonicum . . . . Hamburg: In Verlegung Samnel Heyll und Johann Gottfried Liebezeit, 1707.
3. William West (fl. 1568-1594). The First Part of Simboleography. Which May Be Termed the Art of description, of Instruments and Presidents. London: by Thomas Wright, 1603. On Loan from a Private Collection.
4. Christopher Sutton (c.1565-1629). Disce Mori. Learne to Die. A Religious discourse, moouing euery Christian man to enter into a serious remembrance of his ende. London: by I. Windet, for Cuthbert Burby, 1602.
SECTION 5: TAKING LIBERTIES
CASE 23 COLLECTIVE AUTHORITY AND THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
1. Anglicus Bartholomæus (13th cent.). Batman vppon Bartholome, his Booke De Propietatibus Rerum . . . . London: by Thomas East, 1582.
CASE 24 USE AND ABUSE: ANATOMY & PORNOGRAPHY
1. Charles Estienne (c. 1504-1564). La dissection des parties du corps humain divisee en trouis liures. Paris: chez Simon de Colines, 1546.
2. Helkiah Crooke (1576-1635). Mikrokosmographia. A Description of the Body of Man. [London:] by W. Iaggard, 1618.
3. Aristotle, pseud. Aristotle's Master-piece: Or, The Secrets of Generation. London: n.p., 1692.
CASE 25 BEYOND THE BOOK: AFFECT AND MEDIUM
Music and Sound
1. René Descartes (1596-1650). Renatvs Des-cartes Excellent Compendium of Musick: with Necessary and Judicious Animadversions Thereupon. London: by Thomas Harper for Humphrey Moseley, 1653.
Performance and Presence
2. Marston, John (c. 1575-1634). The Malcontent. London: by V.S. for William Aspley, 1604.
Emblem and Eros
3. Otho van Veen (1556-1629). Les Emblemes de L'Amovr Hvmain. Brussels: chez Francois Foppens, 1667.
4. Francesco Pona (fl. 1645). Cardiomorphoseos Sive Ex Corde Desvmpta Emblemata Sacra. Verona: n.p., 1645.
