Author: Richard De Bury
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486832465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
The Durham Philobiblon
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Philobiblon
Author: Richard De Bury
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486832465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486832465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
The Love of Books
Author: Richard de Bury
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The Durham University Journal
Author: University of Durham
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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New Science Out of Old Books
Author: Richard Beadle
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The broad character of Doyle's research interests is reflected in the wide range of areas covered by these essays, from late-medieval book production, textual transmission and reception, to the part books played in the lives of English people from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The broad character of Doyle's research interests is reflected in the wide range of areas covered by these essays, from late-medieval book production, textual transmission and reception, to the part books played in the lives of English people from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.
Richard III's Books
Author: Anne F. Sutton
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781803996318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This crash course on late medieval literature reveals what Richard III read and what his reading says about the society of his day
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781803996318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This crash course on late medieval literature reveals what Richard III read and what his reading says about the society of his day
Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859917650
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Manuscript evidence is used to trace the processes of the establishment of a new order in Northumbria following the Norman conquest.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859917650
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Manuscript evidence is used to trace the processes of the establishment of a new order in Northumbria following the Norman conquest.
The Care of Books
Author: John Willis Clark
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
Author: John Willis Clark
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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