Franciscan Books and their Readers

Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership.

René Hernández Vera completed his PhD at the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and has taught at the University of York and the Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, Colombia. More recently he has collaborated on the teaching of the History of Medieval Libraries in the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World of the University of Padua.

Acknowledgements, Illustrations, Abbreviations, Notes on Transcriptions, Introduction, 1. The Ideal: Regulations and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua, 2. The Space: Libraries and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua, 3. The Form: The Manuscripts, 4. The Readership: Reading Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua, Conclusions, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Bibliography, Index.