https://www.academia.edu/128984873/_Collecting_manuscripts_and_incunabula_in_the_19th_century_Pietro_Pera_librarian_in_Lucca_20th_Annual_Conference_of_the_ESTS_Manuscripts_in_the_Age_of_Print_CESR_Tours_28_30_april_2025?nav_from=3352f92e-cea7-4663-81e5-367a6abda644
Starting from "Varie Avvertenze Utili, e necessarie agli Amatori de' buoni libri" (1756) by Gaetano Volpi, and drawing on the contributions of Kristian Jensen ("Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780-1815") and David McKitterick ("Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830" and "The Invention of Rare Books: Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840"), up to the most recent monographs "The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890-1939" and "The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and Its Consequences, ca. 1890-1945", it is possible to trace how specific criteria for collecting manuscripts and early printed books emerged between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This paper aims to revisit these reflections in order to address the following question: is it possible to identify certain characteristics that allowed manuscripts to continue to be collected, despite the advent of print? In particular, the study will focus on the case of the personal library of Carlo Ludovico of Bourbon, assembled during his Duchy of Lucca (1824-1847) with the assistance of librarian Pietro Pera, who, in his address "Intorno all'origine, progresso ed utilità della Reale Biblioteca Palatina di Lucca", outlines the selection criteria for the volumes. A comparison between the manuscript catalogue and the incunabula catalogue of this collection – now preserved in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma – may offer further insights into whether these two bibliographic categories were viewed as competing or complementary within a fully nineteenth-century collection.
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