Re: Caramuel, Lobkowitz y Chinese

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:

> Baresh refers to the VMS as "uselessly taking up space in my
> library".  While that is of course only a figure of speech,
> the fact that he chose those words may mean that his library
> was not a particularly large one. 8-)

Or that it was a large number of books in a relatively small
space (like my own library!). I am pretty sure now that Baresch
must have been a wealthy burgher - it was rather typical for
young members of such families to get good education and afterwards
they often had substantial collections of books - even though
they were not "active" scholars or scientists. I have seen 
a number of post mortem inventories of Polish burghers of
the 16th and 17th c. and some of them had really large libraries.

Best regards,

Rafal