Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since AntiquityJ. Raven This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq. |
Contents
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2 Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia | 41 |
3 Aristotles Peripatetic Library | 58 |
Shifting Representations of Regiomontanuss Library | 75 |
5 The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive | 91 |
The Dispersals of the Library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester | 106 |
The BreakUp of English Libraries in the Sixteenth Century | 125 |
8 Secularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria | 145 |
10 Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences for French Library History | 181 |
The Dispersal and Disappearance of the Diocesan Libraries of the Church of Ireland | 197 |
12 The Lost Jewish Libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage | 219 |
13 Chinas Roosevelt Library | 236 |
14 Chinas Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet | 247 |
15 Burn the Books | 261 |
Index | 275 |
9 Lost Royal Libraries and Hanoverian Court Culture | 163 |
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Abraham Sutzkever Ancient Library Apellicon Aristotle Aristotle’s Athens Biblioteca Bibliothèque nationale bishop Bodleian Bodleian Library book collections British Library burned Cambridge Campbell Orr catalogue Cathedral century chapters Charlotte China Chinese Chong Qing Church of Ireland codices College copies Corvina Court Library cultural cuneiform dépôts destroyed destruction diocesan library Diogenes Laertius dispersal dissolution Dominique Varry Duke El-Abbadi ex libris example fate Faustus George Greek Humfrey Humfrey’s incunables inventories Jewish Jiao Yu Johann John Joseph II King’s later librarian Library of Alexandria library’s literary literature London loss lost libraries manuscripts medieval monasteries monastic libraries monks Montag Murr Museum National Library Nationalist Neleus Nuremberg Oxford Paris Peripatetic school philosophy Pirckheimer political printed Public Library Queen reading records Regiomontanus’s Regiomontanus’s library religious Roosevelt Library Rosenberg Royal Library scholars script seizures Strabo Sumerian survive tablets texts Theophrastus Tibet Tibetan tion Truffaut University Library University Press Vilna vols volumes writing YIVO