Guest post by Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Books & Special Collections

This short book provides a list of Greek manuscripts from the library of the sixteenth-century Platonist Francesco Patrizi  (1529-1597), acquired by the celebrated Escorial library of Spain in the 1570s. The introductory text (in German) also provides biographical information about Patrizi. Both the inventory and introduction have been marked by a reader, perhaps by Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005). The volume was once in the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg of Hamburg (now the Warburg Library in London), and today the volume is part of McGill’s Raymond Klibansky Collection.

See images of the Escorial library on their website: http://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/

Front cover of “Francesco Patricio und seine Sammlung […]”

Title page of “Francesco Patricio und seine Sammlung […]”