Exploring Humanist Networks of Knowledge and Reading in Queens' College Old Library,

该项目由澳大利亚人权委员会开放-牛津-剑桥博士培训伙伴关系资助，将与牛津大学合作，探索剑桥皇后学院旧图书馆的人文主义学习网络。我将致力于阐明更广泛的大陆印刷出版商网络，这些印刷出版商为16世纪的旧图书馆和皇后区研究员提供了书籍。学院最重要的都铎英语图书收藏家是托马斯·史密斯（1513-1577），他试图殖民爱尔兰的失败可以与他的古典文本的“积极阅读”联系起来。这个词是由丽莎贾丁和安东尼格拉夫顿（1990年），他们的工作现在继续由中心编辑生活和信件（细胞）在伦敦大学学院。他们的方法论，包括对人文主义者的阅读和书籍注释的深入研究，将被用作克莱尔萨金特（2001）提出的更广泛的“考古学”方法论的一部分，特别是考虑到皇后区的旧图书馆。将书籍视为图书馆“场地”内的人工制品，需要仔细研究它们的物理特性，包括书籍的装订--以前书籍被拴在书架上--以及沿着的题字和注释。对这些书籍的研究将与最近完成的图书馆目录、图书馆的两份16世纪书目和女王捐赠者名册一起进行。我将展示16世纪的图书馆从剑桥的“文具商”以及国外收集和购买了哪些书籍，以及图书馆的藏书是如何在大陆人文主义及其图书贸易的更广泛背景下发展起来的。这个项目提出的研究问题将包括：托马斯史密斯为什么以及如何使用和注释他的书？我们能不能更广泛地利用昆斯16世纪著作中的所有权标志来构建和探索从剑桥开始遍布欧洲的知识网络？我们怎样才能同时利用印刷书籍和手稿档案来重建16世纪企业图书馆的实际和知识生活？我们如何运用对特定企业图书馆及其在特定时期的动态的研究来提出和回答关于早期英国人文主义的更广泛的史学问题？皇后区的旧图书馆仍然是一个研究不足的资源;大多数书籍的注释和铭文尚未被翻译。托马斯·史密斯的生活和研究的更广泛的元素仍然没有得到充分的研究，例如他对钱币学的兴趣：安德鲁·伯内特，理查德·辛普森和黛博拉·索普（2017）揭示了史密斯关于罗马钱币的“几乎不为人知”和显然未发表的作品，这表明“剑桥圈“除了书籍收集之外还有更广泛的学术活动。史密斯在爱尔兰的活动将形成一个有益的比较，以更好地了解菲利普西德尼爵士的职业生涯，他的父亲亨利是爱尔兰总督。斯密对经典文本的使用将进一步说明人文主义者的阅读实践，在西德尼和他的秘书加布里埃尔·哈维（剑桥圈的另一位成员）对李维的解读中，贾丁和格拉夫顿已经描述了这种实践。事实上，史密斯在埃塞克斯的希尔霍尔为李维的文本建立了自己的阅读小组，大概也是考虑到了爱尔兰。史密斯的遗赠的一些80本书皇后图书馆，可以说是最重要的16世纪人文主义聚会现存于英格兰，提供了一个研究不足和高度相互关联的资源，为研究更广泛的网络人文主义学习在英格兰和整个大陆。为了回答上述问题，我将把一个特定的公司图书馆的藏书放在一个更广泛的知识背景下：从都铎王朝的英语学习和政治中实际应用的角度来研究和交易人文主义文本。

This project, which is funded by the AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral TrainingPartnership, will explore networks of humanist learning at Queens' College Old Library,Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Oxford. I will aim to illuminate the wider,continental network of printer-publishers that furnished the sixteenth-century Old Library andQueens' Fellows with their books. The College's most significant Tudor English book collector wasThomas Smith (1513-1577), whose failed attempts to colonise Ireland can be linked to his "activereading" of classical texts. This term was coined by Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton (1990),whose work is now continued by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) at UCL. Theirmethodology, which involves the close study of humanist reading and annotations in books, willbe used as part of a wider "archaeological" methodology suggested by Clare Sargent (2001)specifically with Queens' Old Library in mind. Treating books as artefacts within the "site" of theLibrary will require close study of their physical characteristics, including bindings - the booksbeing formerly chained to the lecterns - along with inscriptions and annotations. The study of thebooks will be carried out in conjunction with a recently completed catalogue of the Library, twosixteenth-century book lists from the Library and the Queens' Donors' Roll. I will show whichbooks were collected and purchased for the sixteenth-century Library, from the "stationers" ofCambridge' as well as from abroad, and how the Library's collections developed within thebroader context of continental humanism and its trade in books.Research questions posed by this project will include: Why and how did Thomas Smith use andannotate his books? Can we use signs of ownership in Queens' books of the sixteenth centurymore generally to construct and explore intellectual networks spreading from Cambridge acrossEurope? How can we use both printed books and manuscript archives to reconstruct the practicaland intellectual life of a sixteenth-century corporate library? How can we apply the study of aspecific corporate library and its dynamics over a given period to pose and answer the widerhistoriographical questions about early English humanism?Queens' Old Library remains an understudied resource; the majority of the books' annotationsand inscriptions are yet to be translated. Broader elements of Thomas Smith's life and studiesremain understudied, such as his interest in numismatics: Andrew Burnett, Richard Simpson andDeborah Thorpe (2017) have revealed a "virtually unknown" and apparently unpublished work bySmith on Roman coinage, which indicates the wider scholarly activities of the "Cambridge Circle"beyond its book collecting. Smith's activities in Ireland will form a useful comparison to the betterknowncareer of Sir Philip Sidney, whose father Henry was governor of Ireland. Smith's use ofclassical texts will further illustrate humanist reading practices, already described by Jardine andGrafton in the readings of Livy undertaken by Sidney and his secretary Gabriel Harvey, anothermember of the Cambridge circle. Indeed, Smith developed his own reading group for Livy's textsat Hill Hall in Essex, presumably also undertaken with Ireland in mind. Smith's bequest of someeighty books to Queens' Library, arguably one of the most important sixteenth-century humanistgatherings extant in England, provides an understudied and highly interconnected resource forthe study of the broader networks of humanist learning in England and throughout the continent. Iwill aim to answer the questions above by placing the book collection of a specific corporatelibrary within a much wider intellectual context: the study of, and trade in, humanist texts from thecontinent with a view to their practical application in Tudor English learning and politics.