Lost libraries : the destruction of great book collections since antiquity / edited by James Raven.
| Other author | Raven, James, 1959- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamsphire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. |
| Description | xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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 -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2003066183 |
| ISBN | 1403921199 |
| ISBN | 9781403921192 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Z721 .L67 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |