TY - SER
AU - James Raven
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
The resonances of loss / James Raven 
Lost libraries of ancient Mesopotamia / Jeremy Black 
Aristotle's 'Peripatetic' Library / T. Keith Dix 
Text to trophy: shifting representations of Regiomontanus's Library / Richard L. Kremer 
The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive / Martyn Rady 
Habits of manuscript-collecting: the dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester / David Rundle 
'The manuscripts flew about like butterflies': the break-up of English libraries in the sixteenth century / Nigel Ramsey
Secularization and Monastic libraries in Austria / Friedrich Buchmayr 
Lost Royal libraries and Hanoverian court culture / Clarissa Campbell Orr 
Revolutionary seizures and their consequences for French library history / Dominique Varry 
A plague of books: the dispersal and disappearance of the Diocesan libraries of the Church of Ireland / Margaret Connolly 
The lost Jewish libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage / Sem C. Sutter
China's Roosevelt Library / Rui Wang and Yulin Yang 
China's destruction of the libraries of Tibet / Rebecca J. Knuth 
Burn the books / Robert J. Fyne
PB - Palgrave MacMillan
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2004
SN - 9781403921192
EP - 294 pp.
TI - Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity
ER -