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Libraries in the Manuscript Age (Hardcover)
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Libraries in the Manuscript Age (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the
rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were
handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of
libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the
seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia,
Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the
key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars
and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and
sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards
that threatened their survival. Many of these treasured books are
long gone, but there remain hosts of evidence enabling one to
reconstruct the collections to which they belonged, found in
ancient buildings, literary accounts, archival documentation and,
most crucially, catalogues. With such material at hand or, in some
cases, the manuscripts of a certain library which have come down to
us, it is possible to reflect on the nature of these libraries of
the past, the interests of their owners, and their role in the
intellectual history of the manuscript age.
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