Take Me and Make It Happen! How-to-Books from the Ferguson Collection and Corresponding Holdings at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel

如何让社会继续前进，让我们完善文明。直到最近的社交媒体时代，印刷指南，说明和食谱汇编是流行的知识传播媒介。学者们给16世纪贴上了“如何做的时代”的标签，当时不仅有短暂的印刷品，而且有实用建议的精装书籍也充斥着市场。本研究从比较、历时和跨学科的角度对具体语用知识在How to公式中的表现进行了分析。其基础是从格拉斯哥大学图书馆（UoGL）和赫尔佐格·奥古斯特·沃尔芬比特尔图书馆（HAB）中精选的具体材料：特别是近代早期关于蒸馏、医学、染色、化妆品、玻璃制造、陶瓷、冶金等方面的论文，更能满足我们的好奇心。一个实用知识的“历史totale”可以从他们的页面收集，但这些来源需要上下文类型化，并从文化研究和数字人文领域的创新方法的帮助下检查。HAB和UoGL之间的合作星座为实现这一目标创造了有利条件。HAB的藏品已经增长了几个世纪，作为一个王子的收藏，它往往忽视短暂的书籍格式，遇到了UoGL，其宏伟的弗格森收藏一直关注即使是最不起眼的书。虽然HAB（自20世纪90年代以来）一直在连续数字化其历史馆藏并使其可访问，但即使在2023年，弗格森收藏仍然基本上缺席学术数字宇宙。这一合作项目的目标是（部分）弥补这一遗漏。因此，好处是双重的：两种互补的国家学术文化相遇，从而将索引编制和应用研究结合在一起。该项目有三个文化研究的核心-“实用性问题”，“文本和图像之间的中介性”和“使用的物质性和痕迹”-通过这些问题的主要特点的How-to书籍展开。该项目的框架建立在索引的基础上，有三种方法：“语料库建设”，“深度索引”和“数字化”。将为“如何预订”类型开发一个定制的多语种数字索引工具，并附有说明手册和食谱。这些书中有许多完全没有适当的索引，因此很难识别。由于研究和编目同时发生在这个项目中，相互和持续的见解和观点是可以预期的。总的来说，在沃尔芬比特尔的合作中，我们的目标是通过系统分析和索引的结合，获得对现代早期编纂、传播和应用实践知识的新见解。

How to questions keep society going, allowing us to refine civilisation. Until the recent age of social media, printed guides, instructions and recipe compilations were the media of knowledge transfer that prevailed. The label 'Age of How to' has been given by scholars to the 16th century, when not only ephemeral printed products but also hardbound voluminous books with practical advice flooded the market. In this project, concrete-pragmatic knowledge as it found expression in How to formulas, is treated from a comparative, diachronic and cross-disciplinary perspective. The basis is a concrete selection of materials from the University of Glasgow Library (UoGL) and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB): notably treatises from the early modern period on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and much more quench our curiosity. A 'histoire totale' of practical knowledge can be gleaned from their pages, but these sources need to be contextualised typologically and examined with the help of innovative methods from the fields of cultural studies and digital humanities. A cooperative constellation between the HAB and the UoGL creates the conditions conducive to this goal. The HAB, with its holdings that have grown over centuries and which, as a princely collection, has tended to neglect ephemeral book formats, meets the UoGL, whose magnificent Ferguson Collection has always paid attention to even the most inconspicuous book. While the HAB has been pioneering (since the 1990s) in successively digitising its historical holdings and making them accessible, even in 2023 the Ferguson Collection remains largely absent from the scholarly digital universe. This cooperation project has set itself the goal of (partially) remedying this omission. The benefits are therefore twofold: two complementary national academic cultures meet so as to bring together both indexing and applied research. The project has three cultural studies foci at its core - 'Issues of Practicability', 'Intermediality between Text and Image' and 'Materiality and Traces of Use' - through which questions about the main features of How-to books unfold. The project‘s scaffolding stands on the foundation of indexing with its three approaches: 'Corpus Building', 'In-depth Indexing' and 'Digitization'. A bespoke multilingual digital indexing tool will be developed for the How to book genre with its instruction manuals and recipes. Many of these books are completely inadequately indexed and therefore hardly identifiable. Since research and cataloguing take place simultaneously in this project, mutual and ongoing insights and perspectives are to be expected. Overall, in Glasgow-Wolfenbüttel collaboration, we aim to gain new insights into the early modern codification, dissemination, and application of practical knowledge through a combination of systematic analysis and indexing.