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Frozen In Time - The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin (Hardcover)
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Frozen In Time - The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin (Hardcover)
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'Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765-1838), Greffier or Chief Minister
of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by
invading French forces in the winter of 1794-5, but managed to
secure the release of his family art collection and library, which
were shipped to him in London in 1798. Being in straitened
circumstances he decided to sell them and negotiations took place
for the purchase of the library for Trinity College.' So begins
Charles Benson's introduction to Frozen in Time, a collection of
the papers presented at the recent Fagel Symposium, held at Trinity
College, Dublin, with the explicit purpose of making this
astonishing resource better known outside College walls. During
their two centuries of public service to the States-General and
Holland, the Fagel family built up one of the most important
private libraries in early modern Europe, with holdings in history,
politics and law as well as every other area of human endeavour:
belles lettres, philosophy and theology, geography and travel,
natural history and the visual arts. This lavishly illustrated
volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the
symposium as well as new articles, covering subjects as diverse as
early Dutch book collections and plans of the cosmos, botanical
sales catalogues, pamphlets on the bloody 1641 Rebellion in
Ireland, Italian Renaissance poetry and the vicissitudes of the
Huguenots. As the first comprehensive study of this hugely
important and hitherto relatively unknown collection - one of the
most important private libraries in early modern Europe - the
volume will be of immense value to scholars and general readers.
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