Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

The catalogue of Queen Carlota Joaquina´s library

Abstract

This article presents the library of the Queen Carlota Joaquina (1775-1830). In order to do so, the catologue of that library has been used as a basis to our work. That document was written in 1831 at the Biblioteca da Ajuda and have remained untouched ever since. This paper show records of an unusual collection. It contains 2,366 books, which is quite a different amount from contemporany libraries, whose averege was close to 25 books.

Keywords
Private libraries; History of reading; Catalogue; The Ajuda Library; D. Carlota Joaquina

Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho Faculdade de Ciências e Letras, UNESP, Campus de Assis, 19 806-900 - Assis - São Paulo - Brasil, Tel: (55 18) 3302-5861, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, UNESP, Campus de Franca, 14409-160 - Franca - São Paulo - Brasil, Tel: (55 16) 3706-8700 - Assis/Franca - SP - Brazil
E-mail: revistahistoria@unesp.br