Librarian's Atlas

Seth Kimmel is associate professor of Latin American and Iberian cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of FiguresIntroduction Books in PlaceOne Hernando Colón’s CosmographyTwo Routes of Antiquarianism: From Seville to San LorenzoThree A Universal Library for Philip II: Juan Páez de Castro and the Escorial’s Order of KnowledgeFour Biblioteca and Biblia: Benito Arias Montano’s Logics of PlaceFive This Holy Land: Semitic Philology and Peninsular ToponymySix Spanish Orientalism and Saʿadī Cultures of the CatalogConclusion: “Libraries” and the Shape of KnowledgeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"A highly original study of book collectors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain . . . The Librarian's Atlas offers an original perspective on the Spanish Golden Age and shows how our passion for exploring both sides of the horizon is accompanied by another, equally strong--that of mapping out our explorations and lending order to our curiosity."