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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens including a concordance with his Oeuvres Complètes: 35
Author(s): Joella Yoder (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 17 May 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 350 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004235647
- ISBN-13: 9789004235649
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens inventories all known manuscripts written by Christiaan Huygens as well as all letters to or from him. Because almost all of the manuscripts are housed at the University of Leiden in a collection entitled Codices Hugeniani, the catalogue contains an inventory of that entire collection of family papers, including many involving Constantijn Huygens. In addition, because most scholars begin their research by consulting Oeuvres Complètes de Christiaan Huygens, which does not provide enough information to relocate the manuscripts edited therein, this catalogue essentially footnotes every edited piece by listing the source manuscripts page-by-page for each volume. Thus, the researcher should be able to move easily between manuscript and edition.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“De auteur van het boek […] heeft er 27 jaar aan gewerkt, en het resultaat is superb. Het boek is onmisbaar voor wie niet alleen wil weten wat Huygens schreef, maar ook waarom hij dat deed en hoe hij dacht.” – Jos Damen, Head of the Library and IT, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, in: InformatieProfessional, 2013, p. 34
About the Author
Joella Yoder, Ph.D. (1985), University of Wisconsin, is a noted expert on Christiaan Huygens. In Unrolling Time (Cambridge, 1989) she drew from unpublished manuscripts to reconstruct Huygens’ creative process. That experience inspired her to undertake a complete catalogue of the manuscripts.
