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The Philobiblon
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Author : Richard De Bury
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2019-06-12
The Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-12 with History categories.
"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.
Philobiblon
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Author : Richard de Bury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
Philobiblon written by Richard de Bury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with Bibliomania categories.
Miscellanies Of The Philobiblon Society
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Author : Philobiblon Society (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
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Philobiblon
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Author : Richard De Bury
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-07-02
Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-02 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
From the Preface: NOT often has a little book with a great reputation been so neglected by publishers as has the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury. Though generally cited as the first book written in praise of books, as it is admitted to be the most earnest plea in defense of book-collecting, it is singularly unknown even to book-lovers and has at times been out of print and even scarce. First printed in Latin at Cologne in 1473 and reprinted from time to time during three hundred and fifty years, it was not translated into English until 1832. At that time John Bellingham Inglis published a translation anonymously through Thomas Rodd, Bookseller, London, in a small edition of about two hundred copies. The present issue is a reprint of this first translation, chosen partly as a tribute to the translator who first discovered this little classic to English readers, and partly because it was the only translation available, for reasons that will be obvious. Two other translations have since been made, (one by Ernest C. Thomas and the other by Andrew Fleming West), with painstaking fidelity to texts obtained by a comparison of all known manuscripts. It may be claimed for the Inglis translation, however, that with all its faults it is more spirited if not so accurate as the others. It was reprinted in an edition of 230 copies at Albany in 1861, and again by Morley, as part of a "Miscellany" in his "Universal Library," in 1888. Omitting this cheap reprint, which appeals in no way to the book-lover, and the privately printed Grolier Club edition, barely twelve hundred copies have found their way to the hands of English readers. This is offered as a sufficient excuse for the present edition, which disclaims for itself any attempt to go over anew in the introductory matter, the ground already so well covered by competent hands. It was thought, however, that a few facts as to the author s life, and notes as to previous editions, gleaned from the best sources, would not be out of place. Acknowledgment is made to Thomas and West, to whose careful editing the reader is referred for more minute details. -Charles Orr
Philobiblon
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Author : Richard de Bury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
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Bibliographical And Historical Miscellanies Philobiblon Society
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Author : Philobiblon Society (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Bibliographical And Historical Miscellanies Philobiblon Society written by Philobiblon Society (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Bibliography categories.
Includes list of members.
The Philobiblon Of Richard De Bury
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Author : Richard de Bury
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 2003
The Philobiblon Of Richard De Bury written by Richard de Bury and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Miscellanies Of The Philobiblon Society
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Author : Philobiblon Society (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
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The Love Of Books
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Author : Richard De Bury
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2006-06-01
The Love Of Books written by Richard De Bury and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune with books is lead to detest all manner of vice. The demon, who derives his name from knowledge, is most effectually defeated by the knowledge of books, and through books his multitudinous deceits and the endless labyrinths of his guile are laid bare to those who read...-from "Chapter XV: Of the Advantages of the Love of Books"British writer and bishop RICHARD AUNGERVILLE (1287-1345), AKA Richard de Bury, was a royal tutor and a player in court intrigue, and is today perhaps the most famous book lover of the medieval world. Owner of an immense personal library, the bishop penned this valentine to the wisdom of books and the joy of collecting them, most likely completing it just before his death. (This, considered the definition English edition, was translated by Oxford scholar Ernest C. Thomas and first published in 1888.) Delightfully expansive in its bibliomania, the Philobiblon waxes rhapsodic about: . The Degree of Affection That Is Properly Due to Books. The Numerous Opportunities We Have Had of Collecting a Store of Books. Why We Have Preferred Books of Liberal Learning to Books of Law. Why We Have Not Wholly Neglected the Fables of the Poets. Who Ought to Be Special Lovers of Books. The Advantages of the Love of Books. Showing Due Propriety in the Custody of Books. The Manner of Lending All Our Books to Students. and much more.OF INTEREST TO: readers of medieval literature, book lovers
The Philobiblon
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Author : Richard de Bury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
The Philobiblon written by Richard de Bury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Book collecting categories.