Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2004
Author
Editor: James Raven
Language
English
Number of Pages
294 pp.
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
City
New York, NY
Region
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Library Type
Private/Personal Library
Religious Libraries
State/Government Libraries
Demographics
Jewish People, non US
Chronological Period
Ancient Period (pre 500)
15th century
16th century
17th century
1800-1849
1850-1899
18th century
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9781403921192
Annotation

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
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