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Neil Harris, The Quest for Haremius. Ghost Editions and Bibliographical Resources, The Library, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 491–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpae042
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In memory of Dennis Everard Rhodes (1923–2020) 1
A LITTLE WHILE AGO—’TWAS THE TIME of the great Coronavirus plague—I was teaching a Book History class online about bibliographical repertories, with an especial emphasis on incunabula, and so I showed the digital copy of volume II/1, containing letters H–O, of Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, published in 1831 and conjured up in Google books. Explaining that as well as the incunabula seen in person, usually because they were in the collections of the great library at Munich where he worked as a private scholar and thus are marked with an asterisk, Hain also included references for books he had not seen, sometimes of a more equivocal status.
To illustrate the point, I clicked on an example that just happened to be in the digital page I was browsing on, or this entry here:
8363. HAREMIUS (Florentius). Vitae christianae norma seu regula. s. l. a. et typ. n. 4 (c. 1494.)
