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

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- Case studies.

Libraries -- History -- Case studies.

Libraries and state -- History -- Case studies.

Libraries and society -- History -- Case studies.

Censorship -- History -- Case studies.

Cultural property -- History -- Case studies.

1. Introduction: the resonances of loss

2. Lost libraries of ancient Mesopotamia

3. Aristotle's 'peripatetic' library

4. Text to trophy: shifting representations of Regiomontanus's library

5. The Corvina library and the lost Hungarian archive

6. Habits of manuscript-collecting: the dispersals of the library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester

7. The manuscripts flew about like butterflies: the break-up of English libraries in the sixteenth century

8. Secularization and monastic libraries in Austria

9. Lost royal libraries and Hanoverian court culture

10. Revolutionary seizures and their consequences for French library history

11. A plague of books: the dispersal and dissappearance of the Diocesan libraries of the Church of Ireland

12. The lost Jewish libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage

13. China's Roosevelt library

14. China's destruction of the libraries of Tibet

15. Burn the books.

Includes index.

9781403921192

xiii, 294 p. : ill.