The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (3000 B.C. to A.D.1600) - Hardcover

The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Impression. 563pp.illustrated endpapers. Red cloth, Embossed gilt lettering on the front panel and spine. Light toning to the extremities, otherwise a near fine, unmarked copy. 100's of color and black and white illustrations throughout. Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright, two small closed tears on the spine edges. "This beautiful and vast volume is a fitting tribute to the libraries of the Mediterranean and Western Europe from 3000 BC to AD 1600. Divided into two books, the first presents the motives that prompted people to collect and then establish and maintain buildings specifically designed to house texts. Staikos also traces the influence of intellectual trends and historical events on the development of libraries and the factors that affected the architecture and internal fittings of libraries. The chapters include discussions of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Cicero, Hadrian, Cosimo de'Medici, Johannes Cuno amongst many others and encompasses Mesopotamia, Egypt, Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire, Early Christian libraries, Byzantium and the Renaissance. The huge range of themes and comparisons includes: popular reading, the arrangement of libraries, catalogues, scribes, public and private collections, the book trade, education, Byzantine humanism, Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon scholarshp, the first universities and the impact of the printing press. The second book presents fourteen specific monastic and humanist libraries and their creators, including the Library of the Monastery of St John of Patmos, the Vatican Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Size: 9 1/2" x 13". Book. Artikel-Nr. 035719

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