De indicibus librorum e a arte de indicialização1 em Conrad Gesner (Parte II2): ilustração e aplicação3

• Published in: Em Questão Vol. 25; pp. 137 - 158
• Main Author: de Freitas Araujo, Andre Vieira
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Porto Alegre Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação 01.01.2019
• Subjects: 16th century; Bibliographic literature; Inventory control; Literature reviews; Theory
• ISSN: 1807-8893; 1808-5245
• DOI: 10.19132/1808-5245250.137-158

Second part of the study on De indicibus librorum - constituent section of the Pandectae (1548) by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) - which deals with the constitution, function and use of indexes. The aim of the study is to illustrate and demonstrate the application of Gesnerian indicilization. Under the historical-bibliographic treatment, the study has as its course: 1) reading and integral translation of the De indicibus librorum (for Part II of the study, specifically the translation of folio 21r (d3) to folio 22v (d4)); 2) mapping of some of the indexes present in the Pandectae (1548, 1549); 3) discussion and combination of the Latin source with literature review on the subject, based on Wellisch (1981), Cochetti (1984a, 1984b) and Serrai (1990). The last part of De indicibus librorum is dedicated to library indexes as ordering devices and inventory control. Gesner, in addition to mentioning indexes that were used to prepare Bibliotheca Universalis (1545), analyzes, based on the Pellikan method for indexing, the criteria and structure of these tools. The indexes present in the Pandectae (1548, 1549) are refined according to their composition (connection between terms and numbers of the folios) and logical delineation. In its totality (folio 19 v (d) to folio 22 v (d4)), De indicibus librorum is a relevant source for history, theory, practice and the art of indicialization, and also for the history of the organization of information and knowledge in the 16th century. Simultaneously, the set of arguments presented by Gesner anticipate and prove, in effect, the theoretical-applied and technical-indexical configuration that came to assume Bibliography as a discipline.