Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity

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