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Drawing on scholarly chapters and a range of historical case studies, it analyzes conflicts, censorship, and cultural-property pressures shaping library survival. The book includes bibliographical references and an index, supported by lists of illustrations and tables.","Lost Libraries  \nThe Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity  \nEdited by James Raven  \nLost Libraries  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nLost Libraries  \nThe Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity  \nEdited by  \nJames Raven  \nEditorial matter, selection and introduction © James Raven 2004  \n© all remaining material © Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 2004  \nAll rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2004 by  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010  \nCompanies and representatives throughout the world  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.  \nISBN 1–4039–2119–9 hardback  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nLost libraries: the destruction of great book collections since antiquity / edited by James Raven.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 1–4039-2119-9  \n1. Libraries – Destruction and pillage – History – Case studies.  \n2. Libraries – History – Case studies. 3. Libraries and state – History – Case studies. 4. Libraries and society – History – Case studies.  \n5. Censorship – History – Case studies. 6. Cultural property – History – Case studies. I. Raven, James, 1959–  \nZ721. L67 2004  \n027¢.009–dc22 2003066183  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne  \net sua fata habent libelli  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nContents  \nList of Illustrations  \nList of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors  \n1 Introduction: The Resonances of Loss James Raven  \n2 Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia Jeremy Black  \n3 Aristotle’s ‘Peripatetic’ Library  \nT. Keith Dix  \n4 Text to Trophy: Shifting Representations of Regiomontanus’s Library  \nRichard L. Kremer  \n5 The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive Martyn Rady  \n6 Habits of Manuscript-Collecting: The Dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester  \nDavid Rundle  \n7 ‘The Manuscripts flew about like Butterflies’: The Break-Up of English Libraries in the Sixteenth Century  \nNigel Ramsay  \n8 Secularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria Friedrich Buchmayr  \n9 Lost Royal Libraries and Hanoverian Court Culture Clarissa Campbell Orr  \n10 Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences for French Library History  \nDominique Varry  \nix  \nx  \nxi  \nxii  \n1  \n41  \n58  \n75  \n91  \n106  \n125  \n145  \n163  \n181  \nviii Contents  \n11 A Plague of Books: The Dispersal and Disappearance of the Diocesan Libraries of the Church of Ireland  \nMargaret Connolly  \n12 The Lost Jewish Libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage  \nSem C. Sutter  \n13 China’s Roosevelt Library Rui Wang and Yulin Yang  \n14 China’s Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet Rebecca J.","cbCaia75StFxCDS1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia75StFxCDS1","pdf",1882383,3,1,309,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## The Resonances of Loss\n# Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia\n## Aristotle’s ‘Peripatetic’ Library\n## Text to Trophy: Shifting Representations of Regiomontanus’s Library\n## The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive\n## Habits of Manuscript-Collecting: The Dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester\n## The Break-Up of English Libraries in the Sixteenth Century\n# Monastic and Court Libraries\n## Secularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria\n## Lost Royal Libraries and Hanoverian Court Culture\n# Revolutionary, Religious, and Political Seizures\n## Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences for French Library History\n## A Plague of Books: The Dispersal and Disappearance of the Diocesan Libraries of the 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