Abstract
The present article proposes a history of the first Public Library of the city of São Paulo through the reading of its bibliographic catalogs. The first record of the collection of this institution dates from 1826 and consists of an inventory of books previously belonging to the convent of St. Francis, to which were added the volumes conformed the library of Bishop Mateus de Abreu Pereira, who died in 1824. In 1827, the library will be attached to the Faculty of Law. From that moment on, it is interesting to observe how a new collection was developed, focused on legal literature and, at the same time, investigated the relationship between the Library and the city's bookstores. The study ends in 1887, when the first printed catalog of the books of the library of the Faculty of Law was published.
Keywords:
library; legal literature; bookstores; São Paulo city
Fonte: Myriam Ellis, “Documentos sobre a primeira biblioteca oficial de São Paulo”, Revista de História, São Paulo, 1957.
Fonte: Esquema elaborado pela autora a partir da transcrição do documento por Myriam Ellis, “Documentos sobre a primeira biblioteca oficial de São Paulo”, Revista de História, São Paulo, 1957.
Fonte: Bibliotheca da Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo. 31 de Dezembro de 1872. Francisco de Souza Dias Ribeiro.