부산대학교 도서관

(b Springhouse, Scotland, Aug 18, 1744; d Toulouse, 1811). French book collector of Scottish birth. Having promised his father that he would leave Britain and never return while Catholicism was not the dominant religion, MacCarthy-Reagh settled in Toulouse. In 1776 he was granted naturalization as a Frenchman. He collected books from his youth and amassed one of the finest libraries in Europe, concentrating particularly on the acquisition of rare early printed books and illuminated manuscripts. He acquired a fine series of books printed at Mainz in the early days of printing, rare books printed in the late 15th century and the 16th, books printed on parchment, and very early books printed from woodblocks, regarded as the first experiments in printing. Among his collection he had a number of finely illuminated early printed books; one of these is a Latin Bible (sold Paris, de Bure, at Hôtel de Bullion, 27 Jan–6 May 1817, lot 66) published in Venice by Nicolas Jenson in ...