Against the background of recent English studies on manuscript culture, Nelleke Moser focuses on two Dutch manuscript miscellanies. One was created by Jacob de Moor (1538/39-1599), a physician who fled from Antwerp to the northern Netherlands, the other by his son David de Moor (1598-1643), a merchant and bookkeeper from Amsterdam. Whereas English manuscript culture is often associated with aristocratic circles, universities, and the Inns of Court, Dutch manuscript culture was in the hands of upper-middle-class readers, who participated in literary institutions called chambers of rhetoric. The evidence here presented suggests that upper-middle-class readers compiling manuscript miscellanies deserve more attention in England, too. ©2010 by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

David de Moor Literary life in the low countries Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary collections in manuscript and print Jacob de Moor Rhetoricians and chambers of rhetoric

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