Ingenious Exercises - Rare Books and Special Collections

Ingenious Exercises
Sports and the Printed Book
in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
Checklist of Items
Case 1
Case 4 (cont.)
Case 6 (cont.)
[Nicolaes Petter]. Klare onderrichtinge
der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst . . . .
Uytgevonden door den wijtberoemden
en vermaerden worstelaer Nicolaes
Petter, En met 71 naeuwkeurige
verbeeldingen der selver, in’t kooper
gebracht door den konstrycken Romeyn
de Hooge. T’Amsterdam, by Johannes
van Weasberge, 1674.
Richard Mulcaster. Positions wherein
those Primitive Circumstances be
Examined, which are Necessarie for
the Training up of Children, either for
Skill in their Booke, or Health in their
Bodie. London: Thomas Vautrollier for
Thomas Clare, 1581.
C. G. Salzmann. Gymnastics for Youth:
Or a Practical Guide to Healthful
and Amusing Exercises for the Use
of Schools . . . . London: Printed for
J. Johnson, 1800.
[Petrus Faber]. Agonisticon Petri
Fabri . . . Sive, de re athletica ludisque
veterum gymnicis, musicis, atque
circensibus spicilegiorum tractatus,
tribus libris comprehensi. Lugduni:
apud Franciscum Fabrum, 1592.
[Richard Blome, ed.]. The Gentlemans
Recreation. In Two Parts . . . . London:
Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard
Blome, 1686.
Case 2
Domenico Angelo. L’École des armes:
Avec l’explication générale des principals
attitudes et positions concernant l’escrime
. . . . London: R & J Dodsley, 1763.
Case 3
Melchisédec Thévenot. L’Art de nager,
demontré par figures, avec des avis
pour se baigner utilement. Paris: chez
Thomas Moette, 1696.
Melchisédec Thévenot. The Art of
Swimming. Illustrated by Forty Proper
Copper-Plate Cuts, which Represent the
Different Postures Necessary to be Used
in that Art. With Advice for Bathing.
2nd edition. London: John Lever, 1764.
Melchisédec Thévenot. L’Art de nager,
demontré par figures, avec des avis
pour se baigner utilement. Paris:
chez Desventes de la Doué, 1769.
Case 4
Girolamo Mercuriale. Hieronymi
Mercurialis: De arte gymnastica libri
sex . . . . Secunda editione aucti, & multis
figures ornati. Venitiis: apud Iuntas, 1573.
Girolamo Mercuriale. Hieronymi
Mercurialis Foroliviensis: De arte
gymnastica libri sex . . . . Editio
novissima, aucta, emendate, & figuris
authenticis Christophori Coriolani
exornata. Amstelodami: Sumptibus
Andreae Frisii, 1672.
Case 5
[Giovanni de’ Bardi]. Discorso sopra
‘l giuoco del calcio fiorentino. Di nuovo
ristampato. In Firenze: Appresso
Cosimo Giunti, 1615.
Pietro di Lorenzo Bini, ed. Memorie
del calcio fiorentino: Tratte da diverse
scritture . . . . In Firenze: Nella Stamperia
di S. A. S. alla Condotta, 1688.
Rules and Instructions for Playing
at Skittles, by a Society of Gentlemen.
Broadside. London: Printed for
G. Kearsley, 1786.
Recueil des planches . . . , vol. 8, from
Encyclopédie; ou Dictionnaire raisonné
des sciences, des arts et des métiers,
par une société de gens de lettres. Mis
en ordre & publié par m. Diderot . . .
& quant à la partie mathématique,
par m. d’Alembert . . . . 28 vols. Paris:
Briasson, and Neufchastel: S. Faulche,
1751-72.
Case 6
J. C. F. GutsMuths. Gymnastik für die
Jugend. Enthaltend eine Praktische
Anweisung zu Leibesübungen.
Schnepfenthal: Im Verlage der Buchh.
der Erziehungsanstalt, 1793.
Case 7
[Nicholas Cox]. The Gentleman’s
Recreation: In Four Parts, viz. Hunting,
Hawking, Fowling, Fishing . . . . London:
Printed by C. Flesher, for Maurice
Atkins and Nicolas Cox, 1674.
R. H. [Robert Howlett]. The School of
Recreation: Or, The Gentleman’s Tutor,
to those Most Ingenious Exercises of
Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding,
Cock‑Fighting, Fowling, Fishing,
Shooting, Bowling, Tennis, Ringing,
Billiards. London: Printed for
H. Rodes, 1684.
The Universal Angler, Made so, by Three
Books of Fishing . . . . London: Printed
by Richard Marriott, 1676. [Includes
(1) Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler
or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation.
Part I. Being a Discourse of Rivers,
Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing. The Fifth
Edition Much Corrected and Enlarged.
(2) Charles Cotton. The Compleat
Angler. Part II. Being Instructions How
to Angle for Trout in a Clear Stream.
(3) Col. Robert Venables. The
Experience’d Angler, or Angling
Improv’d: Being a General Discourse
of Angling. The Fourth Edition Much
Enlarged ].
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Ingenious Exercises: Sports and the Printed Book in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
August 29 — December 16, 2016 | Rare Books & Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library
“Ingenious Exercises” presents a selection of books on sports
and physical culture published in Western Europe in the 16th,
17th, and 18th centuries.
Exhibit Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm
Open to 6pm on Fridays before home football games:
Sept. 9, 16 & 23, Oct. 14 & 28, and Nov. 18
Among the concerns of these volumes are the description and
evaluation of the sports of classical antiquity; the benefits
of different forms of physical activity for human health; and
the integration of sports and exercise into children’s school
curricula. There are also volumes that perpetuate long, rich
bibliographic traditions, like the martial arts manual and the
sporting or hunting book. Also present is Bardi’s treatise on
Florentine calcio, the first book published on football.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Guided Tours
Wednesdays at NOON in October and November
The advent of the printed book stimulated the growth and
rationalization of sports by disseminating rules and other
standards, anticipating the highly regulated sports culture
of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Guided tours are offered regularly by George Rugg,
exhibit curator. Tours meet by the entrance to RBSC.
Reservations are not necessary.
If you are planning to bring a group
or would like to schedule a special tour,
email [email protected] or call (574) 631-0290.
All the books in the exhibit derive from the extensive holdings
in the Joyce Sports Collection, held in the Hesburgh Libraries’
Rare Book and Special Collections.
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