the private library of Erycius Puteanus
Erycius Puteanus (1574-1646) started his studies at the University of Cololgne. At the age of twenty, he enrolled at the University of Leuven to study law. Aside from his law studies, he attended the classes in Latin that were taught by Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) at the Collegium Trilingue. After Lipsius' death, Puteanus succeeded him as professor in Latin.
Title page Bibliotheca.
Bibliotheca is a catalogue of all the books that Puteanus owned. He started Bibliotheca after his move to the castle of Keizerberg around 1614, where he installed a private library under the name Ars Palladisi or 'Castle of Wisdom'. Bibliotheca provides a thematically complilled list of Puteanus' collection, which includes treatises on linguistics and philosophy, oratorial documents, letters, titles that were to be remover from the collection, and future or expected titles. Almost all the works listed in the Bibliotheca are in Latin.
The copy of Bibliotheca owned by Special Collections distinguishes itself from the other remaining copy in the Houghton Library of Harvard University by the corrections to the text that were possibly added by Puteanus himself.
Erycius Puteanus has written notes on the right side.
Written by Valentina Viana Pereira
Bibliografie
Coppens, Chris, et al. Gemotiveerde proeflijst van topstukken binnen de Collectio Academica Antiqua van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. 2008, pp. 34-35.
Puteanus, Erycius. Bibliotheca, sive operum, quae scripsit, hactenus, edidit, designavit catalogus. Leuven, Henricus Hastenius, 1622.
Sacré, Dirk, en Jeanine De Landtsheer. “Portret van Lipsius’ opvolger Erycius Puteanus”. Erasmus’ Droom: Het Leuvense Collegium Trilingue 1517-1797, Leuven, Peeters, 2017, pp. 196–97.
Smets, An. "Erycius Puteanus' Bibliotheca." KU Leuven Bibliotheken, 2017, www. bib.kuleuven.be/bijzondere-collecties/erfgoed/in-de-kijker-1/erycius-puteanus-bibliotheca.
Smets, An. “De bibliotheek van professor Puteanus”. Erasmus’ Droom: Het Leuvense Collegium Trilingue 1517-1797, Leuven, Peeters, 2017, pp. 207–09.