The Devotion of Collecting : Dutch Ministers and the Culture of Print in the Seventeenth Century / Forrest C. Strickland.

Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Conventions
Chapter 1 Ministers and Their Books in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
1 The Rise of the Book Auction Catalogue in the Netherlands
2 The Dutch Context
3 Available with the Booksellers
4 Sold at Auction
Chapter 2 That All May Be Instructed
1 Print and Piety
2 The Difficulty of the 'Reformed' Republic
3 Vainglorious and Irreverent Books
4 'I Must Have the New Tidings'
5 Printers and the Dissemination of Piety
6 The Book and Pen
7 Creatures of the Book
Chapter 3 Buyers of Truth
1 Between Opulence and Poverty
2 Dusty Attics
3 The Home of the Muses
4 The Legion of Books
5 Learned Men
6 Dwelling in Sparta
Chapter 4 Guardians of the Faith
1 The Academy of Academies
2 The More Sound Schoolmen
3 Our Doctors
4 Learning from the Britons
5 Trained in Righteousness
Chapter 5 Learned Servants
1 Men of Letters
2 The Philosophers
3 Roads of the Sun
4 Amateur Physicians
5 They That Bear Silver
6 Reading the Stars
7 Learned Servants
Conclusion: The Ideal Ministerial Library
1 Timeless and Timely Libraries
2 Ministerial Libraries in a Golden Age
3 The Ideal Ministerial Library
Appendix: Analysed Ministerial Library Catalogues
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index.