Memórias guardadas: uma análise das obras raras da Biblioteca Central da Unimontes e da Biblioteca Nacional – 1962 a 2015

Abstract

This work is about the history of library books. It addressed issues beyond the materiality of printed book and its trajectory having as reference the news approaches, historiographical and established major elements for the transformation of the manuscript to the printed book culture.It has shown how the profound changes that this instrument of social value caused in European culture since the time of Gutenberg, in other words, from the half of the century XV, the moment that the book comes up as an intellectual product and a feared and desired power, containing knowledge and individual or collective expressions both in its size handlable object such as content carrier. We also made notes on the rare book as a research tool, historical source and memory; the book while diffuser of knowledge and knowing; and we emphasized the subversive power of the book, object of censorship, and consequently its prohibition and/or its destruction. We analyzed further clarification about the actual origins and our way of living and thinking on these last five centuries that wherein the face of the world was transformed by the printed book. Our study aimed to think the public collection and available to research of the Unimontes library, specifically the part of the Rare Books Sector collection and special. With the same purpose we also reflected, likewise, The National Library of Brazil, to the importance of their role and concern with the guard of the precious rare collection and the national memory. Thus, we select, rare books, of Unimontes library, O Livro de Vita Christi (edition fac-similar 1495) and of other Brazilian National Library, the “Biblia de Mogúncia”, dated 1462, to help and show the relevance the memory places, where historical sources were found available for research and production possibilities of scientific knowledge in special historical. We introduced the historic of the two institutions, - The National Library, and the Central Library of Unimontes and also an analysis of "historical sources”- rare books - chosen for study because they have the “bonds” that that reveal a religious domain field and treat Christ's life. We explore the work of the Library Unimontes - O Livro de Vita Christi - Our source of research about the Biblia Mogúncia. The study of these sources is only in samples of the possibilities of these spaces, justified by the historian needs, to elect their sources, problems and issues because of the inability to deal with all of them - the large volume and variety of themes -, as is our case. In the end, reading, investigate these sources – rare books - and alllowed to extract information about relevant facts of past to check how these works interact with each other.