Abstract
Successive generations of the Membrado, a landed family from the Bajoaragonese town of Belmonte established a library that currently holds 106 titles. This article carries out its cataloguing and analysis. On the one hand, its configuration process throughout the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century is revised, focusing on the ways the ways the books were obtained or their provenance, and also examines some reading practices, as well as their intentionality. On the other hand, the present subjects are classified and reviewed, pointing out a cycle of readings from the learning of the first letters to the ecclesiastical or legal studies together with later books dedicated to leisure and professional or practical purposes. This morphology and other material aspects (authors, editing places, languages, formats) reveal the mental universe of its readers, provide data on a scholarly environment in rural areas at that time and highlight the value of the book in personal formation and social promotion.
Highlights
[en] The Membrado Library: readings of a Bajoaragonese family in the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century
This article carries out its cataloguing and analysis
The present subjects are classified and reviewed, pointing out a cycle of readings from the learning of the first letters to the ecclesiastical or legal studies together with later books dedicated to leisure and professional or practical purposes
Summary
La familia Membrado, que residió en la localidad bajoaragonesa de Belmonte de San José —Bellmunt del Mesquí según el topónimo autóctono— desde mediados del siglo XVII hasta el primer tercio del XX, reunió en ese tiempo y lugar una destacada colección de libros. Se da la feliz y poco frecuente circunstancia de que se conserva aún en la misma casa familiar, actualmente cuidada por un descendiente suyo, Ramón Mur Gimeno, quien la ha dividido en dos: la “Biblioteca del cura Membrado”, con algo más de un centenar de ediciones y manuscritos desde el siglo XVI hasta mediados del XIX, y la “Biblioteca de Juan Pío Membrado”, con 127 títulos de la segunda mitad del XIX y principios del XX, adquiridos por el último miembro de la saga.[2] La distinción obedece, pues, a la diferencia cronológica y a la manera o intención en la reunión de cada una, biblioteca “familiar” la primera y “personal” la segunda. Continuación, constituye un documento necesario y valioso, base de la anterior interpretación
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