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IBLIOTHECA ERASMIANA HISPANICA (The Spanish Erasmian Library Project) is a research project designed to retrieve and publish all the information available concerning the presence of Erasmus' works both in present-day Spanish libraries that possess collections of old works and in private and institutional libraries for which written records survive but whose collections have been lost, dispersed amongst other libraries or, very rarely, partially preserved. We refer to the former as «present-day libraries» and to the latter as «historic libraries». Our study mainly embraces the XVI century although it also continues into the XVII and XVIII centuries, both with regard to the «dating of the extant volumes» studied and the chronology of the «historic libraries» investigated.
We are engaged in a study of the physical condition and minutiae of the extant printed copies, firstly to provide a detailed bibliographical account of the edition in question, and then to offer a scrupulous description of any expurgations it might have been subject to, notes of ownership and the types of annotation it contains, particularly those made by readers. We are also compiling a record, within the limits that the available documentation and studies carried out allow, of all those works by Erasmus that existed in private and institutional libraries of the XVI to XVIII centuries to provide information concerning their bibliographical identity, owners, value and the documents that have given us this information. With the help of all this data we hope to contribute to our further knowledge of how Erasmus' works were received in Spain and how his thoughts were interpreted, mainly in the XVI but also to some extent in the XVII and XVIII centuries. BIBLIOTHECA ERASMIANA HISPANICA (BEHisp): «Erasmus in present-day and historic Spanish libraries» is a research project which has been financed by the Ministerio de Educación (HUM2005-04123), the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (FFI2009-08480) and the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FFI2014-53708-P). The BEHisp project was conceived from the outset as an «OPEN PROJECT», in which any institution or individual could offer to take part. Anyone who wishes to co-operate in the project or find out more about «BEHisp» should get in touch with us. The authorship of all the records included in our databases will be duly acknowledged.  |
