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21-522: The Patrologia Graeca ( PG , or Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca ) is an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language . It consists of 161 volumes produced in 1857–1866 by J.P. Migne 's Imprimerie Catholique, Paris. The Patrologia Graeca is an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular writers, in

42-426: A certain subject or a certain genre, et cetera. In terms of reference works, there are collections of school or university textbooks, collections of research works and of practical books. Some collections are distinguished by a very strong orientation towards specialisation, such as collections on the study of Egyptology , on jurisprudence , on pharmacy , astronomy ... others inversely by an encyclopaedic tendency (in

63-465: A degree of fidelity of the public, which obviously supports the commercial success. In many publishing houses, the tasks of selection of works and programming in general fall under the orbit of the "director of collection". Certain collections have had such fame, that sometimes they are considered or can be considered almost as independent publishing houses, such is the case with the " Bibliothèque de la Pléiade " edited by Éditions Gallimard . Although

84-612: A specific order or not. When each volume in the collection has a serial number, it is called a numbered collection. A collection generally using distinctive, common formats and features. The title of a collection can be accompanied by the term " series " or its equivalents in other languages, such as in the English-speaking world, for example, the " Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ", " Découvertes Gallimard " and " Que sais-je? " are all termed "book series" instead of collections. Conversely, Thames & Hudson 's " World of Art " series

105-1140: A specific order within a series. A series can also include one or more sub-series. Biblioteca de Autores Espa%C3%B1oles Look for Biblioteca de Autores Españoles on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Biblioteca de Autores Españoles in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

126-751: The Patrologia Latina , the authors are (with a few exceptions) in chronological order, spanning the period from the earliest Christian writers to the Fall of Constantinople . Note: Vol. 127 actually spans the 11th to 12th centuries. A new edition has been prepared by the Centre for Patristic Studies, Athens (Κέντρο Πατερικών Εκδόσεων). It comprises additional supplements: introductions, bibliographies, biographical summaries, detailed tables of contents and hagiographic passages. Collection (publishing) The books that make up an editorial collection can be published in

147-517: The Cappadocian Fathers Basil the Great , Gregory of Nazianzus , and Gregory of Nyssa . The 161 volumes are bound as 166 (vols. 16 and 87 being in three parts and vol. 86 in two). An important final volume, which included some supplements and a full index, was never published, as the plates were destroyed in a fire (1868) at the printer. The first series contained only Latin translations of

168-715: The Greek language . It consists of 161 volumes produced in 1857–1866 by J. P. Migne 's Imprimerie Catholique, Paris. It includes both the Eastern Fathers and those Western authors who wrote before Latin became predominant in the Western Church in the 3rd century, e.g. the early writings collectively known as the Apostolic Fathers , such as the First and Second Epistle of Clement , the Shepherd of Hermas , Eusebius , Origen , and

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210-439: The " Biblioteca pentru toți " ( lit.   ' Everyone's Library ' ), a pocket-sized collection, was created by the folklorist Dumitru Stăncescu  [ ro ] in 1895. A collection is characterized by having uniformity in the presentation, as well as by a certain affinity in the contents. The use of the same dimension for each book, the same type of cover, and also the same type of spine. In this regard, sometimes

231-465: The 16th-century humanist Tommaso Porcacchi and printed in Venice by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari from 1563 to 1585. They gave it this metaphorical use of the term: each work is a "ring" or "joy" of the collana ( collana originally means "necklace"). In Portugal , the " Colecção Argonauta  [ pt ] "—a collection of science fiction novels and short stories—appeared in 1953, created by

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252-452: The Portuguese publisher Livros do Brasil  [ pt ] , which aimed to be a pioneer in the popularization of the genre in the country. In Brazil , the "boom of collections" took place in a context of impressive growth of the publishing market. If the publication of collections was still thin on the ground in the 1920s, it would eventually rise and spread in the 30s. In Romania ,

273-429: The case of Grupo Anaya  [ es ] 's "Biblioteca Básica de Historia", and Gallimard 's " Découvertes "). A publisher mainly creates a collection according to its editorial line or for commercial reasons. While books in a series generally have a common subject, character, or universe, in other words, it's a set of volumes that are related to each other by certain thematic element, and volumes may or may not have

294-413: The case of " Découvertes Gallimard "). Some collections include both literary texts and reference texts, such as " Le Livre de Poche ", others are specialised in classic books . Undoubtedly, a publication in a collection format has its importance in terms of marketing. Given that a collection is characterized by a visual unity, with successive editions and with the help of promotion, it can even lead to

315-554: The literary works (popular novels of the 19th century), but also reference work (dictionary), Comte de Buffon 's Histoire Naturelle , Cesare Cantù 's Storia Universale , Juan de Mariana 's Historia general de España ... and it even contains the whole Bible in Spanish ( Biblia de Scío  [ es ] ). In Italy , the first editorial collection was the "Collana historica" (or "Collana historica de' Greci"), which included vulgarised works of twelve Greek historians, edited by

336-554: The number of pages, for example, the books in the collection " Que sais-je? " always have 128 pages. A collection can be further subdivided into several series or sub-collections, for example, the collection " Découvertes Gallimard " contains seven series as well as several sub-collections. The volumes of a collection are also characterized by a defined content or style. Thus, a literary collection will have, for example, novels in their original language, translated works, works with literary value of national authors, or regroup texts of

357-508: The original is preserved in Syriac only and translated into Latin. Quite often, information about the author is provided, also in Latin. A Greek, D. Scholarios, added a half-published list of the authors and subjects, (Athens, 1879) and began a complete table of contents (Athens, 1883). In 1912, Garnier Frères, Paris, published a Patrologia Graeca index volume, edited by Ferdinand Cavallera . As with

378-466: The originals (81 vols., 1856-61). The second series contains the Greek text with a Latin translation (166 vols., 1857-66). The texts are interlaced, with one column of Greek and a corresponding column on the other side of the page that is the Latin translation. Where the Greek original has been lost, as in the case of Irenaeus, the extant Greek fragments are interspersed throughout the Latin text. In one instance,

399-510: The same colours are used on the cover (in the case of the publishers Dalloz and Litec  [ fr ] ), and sometimes different colours or details are always systematically used (collection "Bibliothèques" of the Éditions du Cercle de la librairie  [ fr ] ). Generally, the grammage of paper for each collection is always the same, as well as the typography applied, the cover design and page layout (collection " Découvertes Gallimard "). Certain collections even get to fix

420-452: The two are similar in many ways, editorial collection and book series differ because books in a collection do not necessarily have a specific order, or a common subject, but with a certain affinity in the content of books (collections on art, on religion, on science...), as well as in the format , spine and layout , even grammage , number of pages and style of typeface . A collection can include one or more sub-collections or series (as in

441-746: Was published as a collection in France and Spain. In France , the concept of "collection" was invented by Louis Hachette , a 19th-century publisher, under the name bibliothèque , which means "library". In 19th and early 20th-century Spain , literary collection publishings such as " Biblioteca de Autores Españoles  [ es ] ", " Biblioteca Mignon  [ es ] ", " El Libro Popular  [ es ] " and " La Novela Corta  [ es ] " were in full swing. The " Biblioteca ilustrada de Gaspar y Roig ", created in 1851 in Madrid , notably for its encyclopaedia-like contents. It contains not only

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