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The article reports that the Hubert Heilbronn Literary Library, sold at Sotheby's Paris to be kept as a precious reference instrument. Topics include bibliophilic value which infallibly distinguishes the connoisseur in the library; and number of 20th century books that the bibliophile had covered with modern bindings that appreciate mastery with a fossilized and chilly conception of bibliophilia.

"Wisdom Literature" is closely associated to the library of the Ketuvim in the Hebraic tradition. However, its intention is different as the title makes clear. What is thus the antiquity of such a denomination and what connections do these so-called sapiential books entertain with the collection of the Ketuvim? These are the questions this contribution wishes to deal with. The aim is to enquire into the history and emergence of these books and their collections, to reflect upon their cultural and intellectual possible influences and finally to give due attention to the social and political crisis that made the Hellenistic period in Judea and abroad so painful and yet so fruitful that the concept of cosmopolitanism may be used undeniably in the definition of these new collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyzes a particular case of national literary history in its international dimension: Enver Hoxha's communist Albania published in foreign languages, at local publishing houses, books on literary history topics, which were destined to be exported and reach foreign readers. The result was a truncated (partly legendary) image of Albanian literature. After outlining the particularities of the Albanian cultural history, and after having searched for the causes of the communist institutionalization of literature and of its historiography, we attempt to unveil the main discursive devices of those official texts (a literary history, anthologies and forewords to literary volumes). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The commentary on Job by Thomas Aquinas has a central position in the history of this book exegesis, which it renews fundamentally. Before Thomas, the Moralia in Job of Gregory the Great used to be the main source of influence : Job was considered as a figure of Christ and his patience was exalted in a process of spiritual interpretation. By defining his commentary as literal (Expositio litteralis), Thomas faced boldly all the difficulties of this astonishing book. Roland of Cremone (o.p., † 1259) and some other masters of the 13th century heralded this new approach, but somehow timidly. For Thomas the central thema of the book is the role of divine Providence in human acts : he presented his exposition as a disputatio, opposing two theses. To achieve this new approach, Thomas devoted himself to a precise analysis of the language of the book and inserted in his study scientific elements. It seems also that the reflections of the Jewish philosopher Maimonides in his Guide of the Perplexed, which was translated into Latin probably about 1240, may have influenced saint Thomas in his new approach, which determined a major step in the history of Job exegesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this eighth bulletin of Christology, two main lines of thought have held our attention: on the one hand, a few books on the history of doctrines, both general (thematic) and particular (monographs); on the other, studies or essays at the frontier of systematic theology (Pannenberg), art, and cultural representations of the figure of Christ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thanks to the Internet and the digital world, we are now engaged in a profound reconfiguration of techniques and practices of communication and information. Confronted with these changes, we suggest a return to the thousand-yearold history of the first tools allowing to treat the written information; namely library catalogues, lists and inventories, real instruments to classify books, to better understand and manipulate them. Their contents will vary, depending not only on the mass of data to be processed, but also on their ontological organization: a systematic classification, imperative most of the time since the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. The logistics of catalogues is also very diverse, from following several handwritten lists, registers, printed catalogues and files up to the current computing catalogues. Our study suggests the approach of these different aspects of the history of catalogues by dealing, in a privileged but not exclusive way, with catalogues of books and libraries. A special attention will be granted to the comparative perspective and to the problem of transfers, extremely sensible in a region - Central and Eastern Europe -, for a long time remained on the sidelines of the main circuits of production and distribution of printed matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses papers presented at a conference series titled "Emerging Trends in Book History and Print Culture," hosted by students from the Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec (GRÉLQ) at the University of Sherbrooke and from the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture (BHPC) at the University of Toronto. Topics of papers included the Québec gay militant periodical press and the representation of literature in museums.

The article discusses the books related to medicine in the library of the Byzantine clergyman Photios who lived in the 800's CE. Among other topics addressed are the nature of the inventory of Photios' books and the date and circumstances of its publication, the specific books related to medicine listed with descriptions of each, and meaning of the original Greek.