Humanists and Holy Writ: The New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance

Abstract

London and the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris combined shelve about one-half of the total.This underlines the importance of bibliographic research in numerous libraries.One sometimes finds notable printings in obscure libraries very far from the places of publication.Another conclusion, with which this reviewer fully concurs, is that, while the cataloguing of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts is important and difficult workand is appreciated as suchproducing a com- prehensive bibliography of sixteenth-century printings on an author or subject can be equally important and difficult -but is less recognized and appreciated.The Cranz-Schmitt volume is a very useful one that should facilitate and encourage further study of Renaissance AristoteHanism.