Catalonia-Italy round trip: Documentary contamination in the funds of some scholars, booksellers and antiquarians

Abstract

The study of private documentary complexes, with a strong collecting characterisation, becomes a stimulus to fathom the deep links that exist between different and geographically distant institutional contexts. In this specific case, the bibliophile tendencies of some Catalan erudites and booksellers present points for reflection above the theme of the dispersion of sources produced in Italy. Analyses above the relationship between the two peninsulas can thus become an opportunity to gather some clues above the reconstruction of the origins of archival and book materials. With this in mind, the paper - starting from two cases concerning collections preserved in Barcelona - seeks to present some results of an articulated research experience.

Keywords

• private collections
• provenances
• archival and book sources
• italy
• catalonia