Seventeenth-century libraries shifted from lecterns to wall shelving

Evidence

Libraries throughout Europe abandoned the basic fittings of the medieval college and church libraries, dominated by reading lecterns and low central bookcases. Instead they remodelled library rooms to resemble great halls, in which books were placed, spines out, in great vertical bookcases along the walls. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 488

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier treatment of the lectern library and Fernando Colon’s wall-shelf experiments; also foreshadows modern compact shelving. — connects to: Libraries arranged books by scholarly faculty until the eighteenth century — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 210
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 488

Broader Connections

• Libraries arranged books by scholarly faculty until the eighteenth century #complicates (0.40) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 210