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Mader is the author of one of the most influential works on the history of libraries and library studies of the 17th century. He worked in the famous library of Wolfenbüttel. In 1666, he published a collection of texts on the theoretical literature on libraries, including a description of the state of the Buda collection in 1530" by Johann Alexander Brassicanus (1500-1539), also known in the Hungarian literature.” Schmidt had great admiration for the highly respected Mader, and his choice of title referred to his pioneering collection of texts (De bibliothecis nova accessio collectioni Maderianae adiuncta). He also included texts in the volume that were missing from Mader’s or were written after the 1666 edition, such as Julius Pflugk’s letter. This literature was continued by the Lutheran pastor Johann Christian Koch, 92 when he wrote the first work on the classification of books (de ordinanda bibliotheca).*” Koch lists the major libraries’ methods for classifying books by subject (subject classification). It details Jacobus Tollius’s first travel letter concerning Wolfenbittel, and points out that the publisher of the letter, Heinrich Christian Hennin, lists the thematic units of Herzog August’s library in his notes to the letter. Koch does not explain why he thinks this, but he also compares it to the imaginary order of Matthias’s library (Hennin does not state this, by the way.) #0 DE BIBLIOTHECIS..., (ed. MADER) 1666, in Brassicanus: 135-143. #1 "THE travels of Brassicanus to Buda were thoroughly analysed by N£METH 2013; N£METH 2013a. Cf. more Förpesı 2002. 2 KocH 1713. The author is not the same as Johann Christian Koch (1680-1742) goldsmith. 43 K6HLERS 1728 introductory text refers to it this way. 89
