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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Conrad Gessner's Private Library by Urs B. Leu, Raffael Keller and Sandra Weidmann.

Publication Details

Leiden: Brill, 2008 CE.

Includes a study of Gessner's library in the context of libraries in 16th-century Zurich, and a catalogue of the library, with listings of lost books and lost manuscripts, known from Gessner's correspondence or from annotations in other books. The catalogue of 395 items describes the detailed annotations that Gessner wrote in many of the volumes. As Gessner's library was eventually dispersed after his death, this catalogue is the result of the scholars' many years' of efforts at its reconstruction by identifying surviving volumes.

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Entry Number#6948
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9113
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External URLconrad-gessners-private-library-by-urs-b-leu-raffael-keller-and-sandra-weidmann

Geographic Context

Publication place: Leiden