A Revista BBM é publicada pela Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin (BBM-USP), órgão da Pr´ó-Reitoria de Cultura e Extensão Universitária da Universidade de São Paulo. A revista empreende a tarefa de divulgação do rico acervo da Biblioteca, fruto de mais de oitenta anos de garimpo de Rubens Borba de Moraes, Guita e José Mindlin. A cada edição seguindo um tema distinto, os trabalhos de pesquisa publicados dialogam com as coleções de livros, periódicos, cartas e mapas que estão preservados no espaço. Dessa forma, trata-se de um projeto que pretente iluminar a herança histórico-cultural brasileira, através deste material que compreende o intervalo de formação do Brasil, desde os anos de colonização até o séc. XX.
Universidade de São Paulo. Pro-Reitoria de Cultura e Extensão. Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin
The Eight Travels of Gustavo Piqueira: displacement in time and space
Emphasizing discrepancies and consequences to target readers of that time and future generations, the author discusses the impact of the histories inside the box Oito Viagens ao Brasil, produced by Gustavo Piqueira. In this work, different authors record their versions/interpretations/projections regarding the travelling done on the conquest of the New World, and the Old World’s interests in the American civilizations. Additionally, the author connects those registers with other works present in the context of the history of discoveries, like Hans Staden and Rabelais’ works. The author highlights the graphic and editorial aspects in Piqueira’s box and the registers in it.
Copyright (c) 2018 Marisa Midori Deaecto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The invention of the brasilianas in the XXth century: notes on the history of Guita and José Mindlin Collection
This text is a first result of a research carried out in the Rubens Borba de Moraes personal papers at Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin Library, with the support of the Programa Institucional de Pesquisa nos Acervos da USP. Taking as a point of departure the study of the relationship between Rubens Borba de Moraes, José Mindlin and the Portuguese bookseller António Tavares de Carvalho, this research aims, in a broader context, to provide a better understanding of the genesis of the Mindlin Collection, considering the historical mutations of the “brasilianas” collections in the second half of the twentieth century. This complex framework includes the development of “Brazilian studies” abroad in the 1940s and 1950s, which led to a race for the constitution of collections over the country, but also, in a domestic context, the consolidation of institutions, such as the USP and UnB, as well as the conversion of private collections into public collections.
Copyright (c) 2018 Thiago Lima Nicodemo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The author reminds the experience in the conviviality with Guita and José Mindlin at their particular library, known today as Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin – BBM-USP. She remembers details about material aspects and mentions some books and texts presents there and the relation of Mindlin with them. The author evokes that the library was visited by academic researchers, but also by journalists, writers, bibliophiles and studious of the book and remembers that initially the researches were informal, but after that, it was systematized and organized with regularity and it resulted in substantial works for the national culture.
Copyright (c) 2018 Ana Luiza Martins https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Gralhas [typographical errors] in Machado de Assis: bibliophilia and study of the material forms of editing, correction and circulation of a book
Based on the examination of the famous typographical error that appears in the second edition of Machado de Assis, Poesias Completas, published in 1902, the present article seeks to examine the particularities related to the work of publication and correction of this book that arouses the desire of bibliophiles. Throughout this process, we aim to shed light on the trajectory of the obscure Eduardo Lemos, an employee of the publishing house Garnier, who manually corrected the unsold copies of the book, and examine the different implications of the typo committed in that case. Thus, in a specific way, we intended to promote the approximation between particularities inherent to the bibliophilia and the study of the material forms of inscription and transmission of the book culture.
Copyright (c) 2018 Thiago Mio Salla https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Frida Meyer: women’s sociability in 1920’s Porto Alegre
This article presents the novel Frida Meyer (1924) by Vivaldo Coaracy from the perspective of the History of the Book, proposing links between the literary text and its graphic materiality. It then documents its publishing process, brings data to the study of its circulation, and discusses its first critical reception. Through the analysis of central elements of the plot, this article also seeks to elicit the reading of Vivaldo Coaracy’s novel, attributing importance to the representation of women’s intimate and social life, of Porto Alegre’s urban environment and of the context of World War I in Brazilian literature.
Copyright (c) 2018 Milena Ribeiro Martins https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The road from Minas Gerais to Goiás: travelers, colonists, types and images
The objective of this article is regarding the context of the appearance of Minas Gerais’ and Goiás’ art in the 18th century, marked by the people from São Paulo, Portuguese colonization and the estatement of the christian catholic values. The works of that period are conditioned by the economy of gold and for a society based on canons aristocrats and slavers. The history of São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Goiás is characterized, above all, by a specific religiosity marked by the secular organization of the orders third, brotherhoods and fraternities. In that sense, an entire artistic apparatus was important to show, to distinguish and to order that society that had been rich quickly, at the same time that great sections of that same society were poor.
Copyright (c) 2018 Marcos Horácio Gomes Dias https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Notes about the wonderful in the colonial chroniclers and colonial travelers
The article intends to make a brief presentation in the form of notes on a selected bibliography containing the impressions of chroniclers and travelers on the fantastic and the wonderful in Colonial America. Such symbolic productions are not only the documentation of the New World, but also stand as a fictional literature which comprises certain ways of apprehending the unknown.
Copyright (c) 2018 Carlos Alberto Dória https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Friar Agostinho de Jesus (c. 1600/10-1661): a benedictine artist on the border between two worlds – the Portuguese and Spanish America
At the Piratininga plateau, São Paulo, Brazil, the first social relationships have been born through marriages between Tupis and Portugueses. The opposite of the secular Paraguayan society, made up of Spanish and Guaranis. These relationships, turned into a mix of cultures resulting in an idea of backwoods: miscegenation and freedom, ran away from Iberic control. The pioneers from São Paulo, “paulistas”, used the old indigenas ways, looking for wealth. They returned to the silver of Potosi, bringing their experience and missionary labor. Through the middle of the way, in Santana de Parnaíba, was friar Agostinho de Jesus, the first, and most important Brazilian artist. From 1643, friar Agostinho living with the Benedictines transformed the culture of Brazil, into a significant moment of national art. In Parnaíba, the master found an original and mixed society, creating masterpieces, standarts of sacred art in São Paulo, birth of national identity.
Copyright (c) 2018 Rafael Schunk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Representations and transatlantic networks: France-Brazil relations in the writings of an eighteenth-century traveler
This text presents the results of Ana Beatriz Demarchi Barel’s research projects as a resident researcher at the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin – BBM-USP. The project was intended to study and analyze two texts that are part of the set of works written by Ferdinand Denis, one of the most important actors of France-Brazil relations in the nineteenth century, refer to Lettres Familières et Fragment du Journal Intime of Ferdinand Denis to Bahia (1816-1819). This book, organized by Professor Leon Bourdon and published in 1957 by Coimbra Editora Limitada, belongs to a collection of the BBM-USP and remains, to this day, very little worked, which defines a gap in the Franco-Brazilian literary historiography. The project deepens the reading of the epistolary material of Ferdinand Denis, seeking to trace the network of contacts evoked in the correspondence of Ferdinand Denis and his relation with Brazil.
Copyright (c) 2018 Ana Beatriz Demarchi Barel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Apresentação do dossiê Viajantes.
Apresentação do projeto e da edição inaugural pelos editores da revista Plinio Martins Filho e Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron.
Copyright (c) 2018 Plinio Martins Filho, Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Rules for submission of articles.
Copyright (c) 2020 Plinio Martins Filho http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This article presents a review of the book O Bibliófilo Aprendiz (The Bibliophile Apprentice, in a free translation), on the occasion of the release of its fifth Brazilian edition. The book was written by Rubens Borba de Moraes, a bibliophile who decided to share the particularities of his form of leisure, book collecting.
Copyright (c) 2020 Claudio Giordano http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Resenha do livro Bibliotecas de Maria Bonomi, de Marisa Midori Daecto.
Copyright (c) 2020 Gustavo Piqueira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Cristina Antunes: extraordinary reader and guardian of books
From a house at Princesa Isabel Street to the impressive building at USP, Cristina Antunes (1951-2019) is a protagonist who follows the formation and development of a library which is constituted by many collections, from different periods of time. In this text, she is invited to remember its trajectory, in which condenses and mixes the reflection over the act of reading and the interaction of researchers and collectors with the experience of someone who have always been close to the manuscript, printed version and the libraries. A talk, based on two interviews, is also a tribute to the “cordéis” collector, paleographer, translator, library specialist, book organizer, writer, researcher and above everything, reader.
Copyright (c) 2020 Débora Dias http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
THE First brazilian edition of the “First Brazilian Poet”: the 1879 publication of prosopopeia, some reading pathways and new paths for poetry critique
A study of the 1873 edition of the poem Prosopopeia (1601), authored by Bento Teixeira (c. 1561- 1600), is the starting point for our reflections on different moments of the Brazilian “literary politics” in the terms of Antônio Soares Amora. Accordingly, the materiality of print provides relevant indications of the establishment of the author as the “first Brazilian poet” to get printed in the Empire. At the same time, a critical opinion emerged according to which the main merit of the poem is historical or bibliographical, but not poetic. Based on these considerations, we will suggest some examples of new ways to read this poem at the beginning of the 21st century. They originate from a rhetorical-poetic approach and they focus on Bento Teixeira’s emulation of Luís de Camões (1524-1580).
Copyright (c) 2020 Ana Paula Gomes Nascimento http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Collectionist Practices and Cultural Policies: reflections on some religious documents saved at BBM
In recent years, studies and debates on national cultural heritage management policies have received increasing attention in the field of social and human sciences, especially in the disciplinary field of librarianship and museology, perceived in various events and academic publications. In this sense, at first, this article aims to contextualize the potential of learning and education that the consultants of heritage institutions can achieve from their artistic and / or scientific investigations, in a dynamic that can go beyond the acquisition of knowledge and reconstitution of knowledge, such as reliving memories and values and establishing identity bonds, and therefore corroborate the sense of social and cultural belonging.
Copyright (c) 2020 Silveli Maria de Toledo Russo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Feast and Work: the Tupinambá theater at the Henry Ii Entry into Rouen in 1550
The article analyses the representations of the presence of fifty Brazilian natives in the Henry II entry into Rouen, France, in 1550. The main source of these representations is the book C’est la deduction du sumptueux ordre plaifantz (...), printed in 1551, where there are both a textual and an iconographic representation of the theater played by the Tupinamba indians. The aim of the analysis is to reveal how the glowing terms used to depict the alliance between the Tupinamba indians and the Normans hide the intention to explore the Brazilian natives workforce by the French conquerors.
Copyright (c) 2020 João Marcos Cardoso http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Culture in the process of extreme change
The article addresses the computational cultures, which are already around us, in multiple social spheres, from multinationals to bestsellers. As these cultures are already well established among us, the author argues that society should be aware of them, since what is already consolidated demonstrates a lot about what lies ahead. Thus, the article maintains with the reader a prospective dialogue. It does not turn back and it is not retrospective. The prospective role is the role of science.
Rumos Atuais e Futuros da Conservação: Homenagem à Guita Mindlin
Copyright (c) 2020 José Teixeira Coelho Neto http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Implementation of São Paulo’s Municipal Library System and the renewal of Mário de Andrade Library
The author reflects on the municipal library system, bringing up the discussion about the work carried out by librarians, mainly from the city of São Paulo, between 2005 and 2012 – a very intense process of reinvigorating the city’s public libraries. He describes his career at the period, in which he accompanied the efforts of the librarians and assisted in their work.
Copyright (c) 2020 Carlos Augusto Calil http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Study of Preservation in Library and Information Sciences Courses
Specific articles and Master’s thesis on Preservation were used to address some aspects that involve the teaching of the discipline Preservation in Library and Information Sciences, undergraduate courses in the State of São Paulo. It also compares the offer of the discipline with that in the Archives course in Brazil. Briefly, it updates information on the regulation status of the Conservator profession in early 2019. It also mentions the presence of preservation issues in Library and Information Science scholarly journals.
Copyright (c) 2020 Valéria Gauz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
To conserve or not to conserve: “Bicho tem em qualquer lugar, até na minha casa”
Since earliest times human records have had their conservability subject to the risks intrinsic to the materials and techniques employed in their making, and to the extrinsic factors of environment, politics, culture, economy and technology. Furthermore, the very use of these records contribute to accelerate the disorganization, decay and disorder processes that are characteristic of all that exists. If conservation is an act of human intervention, its contrary (non-conservation) takes place spontaneously as time goes by. However, human action and inaction are usually part of this process. The poor maintenance of places where documents are kept is one of the factors that contribute to their rapid non-conservation. A survey in newspapers published from February 1880 to March 2017 identified 77 fires and 21 cases of flooding in libraries and archives which caused varying losses. Conservation practices require mechanisms of local, regional and national cooperation, exchange and definition of responsibilities. From washing paper to digitizing texts, passing by microfilming, the history of conservation/preservation techniques reveals that they have not always been carried out with the necessary precautions, sometimes leading to the loss or mutilation of documents. Non-conservation can also be caused by ideological repression, thefts and the occultation/destruction of documents to cover up misdemeanor and other crimes especially in archives. Conservation both in its technical and cultural, political and economic aspects should be part of a State policy for the preservation of the national heritage.
Copyright (c) 2020 Antonio Agenor Briquet de Lemos http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Cultural heritage: preservation, safeguarding and conservation of cultural assets
This article is about the work experience in the field of preservation and conservation of cultural property, provides guidance and ways to procedures and attitudes relating to such matters, important and vital in this age of so much uncertainty
Copyright (c) 2020 Jayme Spinelli http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
THE Librarian at the rare book conservation
First-person account of the trajectory of a librarian in the public library network of the São Paulo municipality for almost thirty years. Describes the works in the Rare Books Section of the Mário de Andrade Library, from its reorganization to the conservation and digitization projects of the collection. Acting as the Curator of Rare Books, the author organized exhibitions, wrote articles and bibliographies and participated in courses and internships in the areas of librarianship and conservation of old books, both in Brazil and in the United States.
Copyright (c) 2020 Rizio Bruno Sant’Ana http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Conquest of A Cinza das Horas (The Gray of the Hours), By Manuel Bandeira
Because of the reduced circulation in the years his books were published, Manuel Bandeira is one of the authors with the hardest first editions to be found and collected. This text is a personal narrative of the conquest, after some unsuccessful attempts, of one of the very rare copies of 1917’s A Cinza das Horas.
Copyright (c) 2020 Ésio Macedo Ribeiro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Seventeeth-Century Manuscript of Saudades de Lídia e Armindo, Poem Attributed to Bernardo Vieira Ravasco
In the collection of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, there is a 17th century manuscript of Saudades de Lídia e Armido, poem composed of 158 octaves and attributed to Bernardo Vieira Ravasco (c.1617- 1697), Father Antonio Vieira’s brother. In this paper, we try to highlight the importance of this manuscript for the historiography of 17th century LusoBrazilian letters.
Copyright (c) 2020 Marcelo Lachat http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Letters from Rubens Borba de Moraes to the Portuguese bookseller Antonio Tavares de Carvalho, from 1961 to 1985, document commercial transactions and how their mutual understanding helped the bibliophile to enrich his collection. Names of book collectors are mentioned in the letters about whom information is very scarce, v. g., Jerônimo Ferreira das Neves, Jacques Renout and William Gropp. Information about them and the bookseller Antônio Tavares de Carvalho were collected in a few sources.
The author reflects over his path to acquire his books and his condition as a learner of the bibliophile trade. He also addresses a few aspects related to bibliophilia – some historical and others from the present time – which troubled all the friends of the book.
Copyright (c) 2020 Ubiratan Machado http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Evoking the memory of greats bibliophiles, such as José Mindlin, Rubens Borba de Moraes and Mário de Andrade, the essay explores the theme of bibliophilia and the trajectories guided by it. The author discusses the relation between the book and its owner by a brief investigation of their connections’ conditions, and explaining the consequences of bibliophilia that go beyond the bibliophile, who, in exercising his love of books and the reading, shares them with society
This article is a personal account of the author regarding her relationship with José Mindlin, an industrialist who formed a large collection of rare books. Elisa Nazarian tells how she met the bibliophile, then started to work in his library, and how he helped her in her writing career.
Copyright (c) 2020 Elisa Nazarian http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0