Libraries arranged books by scholarly faculty until the eighteenth century

Evidence

Most collectors at that time would still follow the principle established by medieval libraries, and canonised by the Frankfurt Book Fair catalogues, of ranging books according to their scholarly faculties. Theology would be placed first, then jurisprudence and medicine, with literature, philosophy and science normally consigned to a compendious miscellaneous category. This would remain the predominant mode of organising books and catalogues into the eighteenth century — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 210

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the faculty-based shelving system that dominated library organization for centuries.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 210
• XREF: connects to: The Alexandrian library’s scale forced the first systematic cataloguing systems. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 56; Private professionals, not institutions, shaped libraries for two centuries — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 229; Seventeenth-century libraries shifted from lecterns to wall shelving — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 488 (+1 more)