Im Oktober 2008 rief ein deutsches Auktionshaus in der SLUB Dresden an. Es sei ein Buch mit einem kostbarem Einband und Dresdner Stempel zur nächsten Auktion eingeliefert worden. Sofort begannen umfangreiche Recherchen. Das Ergebnis war spektakulär: Nach Einsicht in mehrere historische Kataloge stand fest, dass es sich um einen von acht Bänden einer zwischen 1569 und 1572 erschienenen Polyglottenbibel des Antwerpener Druckhauses Christoph Plantin handelte.

Der gelehrte Politiker und Diplomat Johann Christian von Boineburg baute seit seiner Jugend eine umfangreiche Bibliothek auf, die mit mehr als 10.000 Titeln zu den großen privaten Sammlungen des 17. Jahrhunderts zählte.Inhalt und Struktur der Boineburgica zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes sind durch einen Katalog bekannt, den der junge Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz erstellte. Durch die Stiftung seines Sohnes, Philipp Wilhelm von Boineburg, wurde die Bibliothek in weiten Teilen für die Nachwelt erhalten. Auf der Grundlage des überlieferten Buchbestandes und des erhaltenen Kataloges der Bibliothek sowie des heute bekannten Briefwechsels entwirft die Arbeit ein Bild des Büchersammlers und -lesers Boineburg in seiner Zeit. Die Einbeziehung der überlieferten Drucke mit ihren handschriftlichen Einträgen ermöglicht die Rekonstruktion der Genese der Sammlung und die Analyse der Textaneignung durch ihren Besitzer. Gezeigt wird, inwieweit Boineburgs produktive Interessen und seine wissenschaftlichen Ambitionen neben seiner beruflichen politischen Tätigkeit und seinen mäzenatischen Aktivitäten die Zusammensetzung seiner Bibliothek begründen. Deutlich wird dabei auch Boineburgs Verwurzelung im Späthumanismus insgesamt. Im Kontext der privaten Büchersammlungen der Respublica literaria zwischen dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg und dem Beginn des letzten Drittels des 17. Jahrhunderts werden die individuellen Merkmale von Boineburgs polyhistorisch ausgerichteter Bibliothek dargestellt. / As a young man the politician and diplomat Johann Christian von Boineburg started to collect books. At the end of his life this collection with its 10,000 titles was one of the largest private collections of the seventeenth century. Today the content and the structure of the Boineburgica are known by a catalogue which was developed by the young Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. By the donation of Boineburgs son Philipp Wilhelm the library was received until today. The dissertation sketches a picture of the book collector and reader Boineburg based on the volumes, the catalogue of the library as well as Boineburgs correspondance that remained till today. The use of the volumes with the handwritten notes of Boineburg makes it possible to reconstruct the increase of the collection and to analyse how Boinebur was reading his books. It is shown to what extent Boineburgs interests, his political activity and his activities as a patron cause the content of his collection. His rootage tin the late humanism becomes evident. The characteristics of the library of the polymath Boineburg are described.

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What did it mean to be a Catholic elite in Protestant England? The relationship between the Protestant crown and its Catholic subjects may be examined fruitfully through a study of an individual and his world. This thesis examines this relationship through the example of Sir Thomas Tresham, who has often been seen as the archetypal Catholic loyalist. It is argued that the notion of Catholic loyalism must be reconfigured to account for the complexities inherent in the relationship between Catholics and the government. The duty to honour the monarch's authority was bound up with social and national sentiment, but it often accompanied criticisms of the practice of that authority, and the ways in which it encroached on personal experience. Intractable tensions lay behind expressions of loyalty, and this thesis travels in these undercurrents of cultural, social, religious, and political conflict to investigate the nuanced relationship between English Catholics and English society. Political resistance as classically understood - actions which directly opposed and undermined government policy - risks the exclusion of culture and identity, through which resistance was redefined. It is argued that Tresham's participation in elite activities became vehicles for resistance in the Catholic context. Book-collecting, reading, and the donation of books to an institutional library are framed as forms of resistance which countered the spirit of government legislation, and provided for the continuation of a robust tradition of Catholic scholarship on English soil. Through artistic and architectural projects, Tresham found ways to participate in elite culture which were not closed off to him, and in which Catholicism and gentility could sit side by side. These activities were also avenues for resistance, whereby the erection of stone testaments to Tresham's faith defied the government's attempts to redefine Englishness and gentility in Protestant terms, to the devastation of Catholicism. These artistic works combined piety, gentility, and resistance, and, together with Tresham's two Catholic libraries, they were to be his legacy.