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Antonio Musotti, notarius et causidicus a Bologna : per un profilo di biblioteca professionale laica sullo scorcio del Quattrocento

2022 - Leo S. Olschki

P. 115-140

  • With a contract of gratuitous loan, in 1493 the notary Giacomo Budrioli acquired the use of a hundred or so manuscripts and printed books on legal topics which had belonged to the Bolognese lawyer Antonio Musotti who had been his teacher. The contract is published here for the first time; although due caution is required in interpreting its provisions, it allows us to trace the character of a late fifteenth-century professional library and the way it probably developed over time.
  • The document also enables us to compare Musotti's book collection with similar collections which were more or less contemporary with his – so it is possible to reconstruct hypothetically the kind of working library an aspiring lawyer would need to study for and subsequently practise the profession – and to place it within the new economic and commercial context which emerged with the arrival of printing in Bologna and elsewhere. The article is accompanied by three appendices: an edition of the entire document, a list of the works which probably belonged to Musotti, and a list of works on jurisprudence (both manuscript and printed) recorded between 1483 and 1504 in different types of Bolognese sources. [Publisher's text]

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Bibliofilia : rivista di storia del libro e di bibliografia : CXXIV, 1, 2022