Lost libraries : the destruction of great book collections since Antiquity / edited by James Raven

Notes bibliogr. Index

Introduction: 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 Rundel 'The manuscripts flew about like butterflies': the break-up of English libraries in the sixteenth century / Nigel Ramsay 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. Fyme