Lost libraries : the destruction of great book collections since antiquity

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The resonances of loss / James Raven --Lost libraries of ancient Mesopotamia / Jeremy Black --Aristotle's 'Peripatetic' Library / T. Keith Dix --Text to trophy: shifting representations of Regiomontanus's Library / Richard L. Kremer --The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive / Martyn Rady --Habits of manuscript-collecting: the dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester / David Rundle --'The manuscripts flew about like butterflies': the break-up of English libraries in the sixteenth century --Secularization and Monastic libraries in Austria / Friedrich Buchmayr --Lost Royal libraries and Hanoverian court culture / Clarissa Campbell Orr --Revolutionary seizures and their consequences for French library history / Dominique Varry --A plague of books: the dispersal and disappearance of the Diocesan libraries of the Church of Ireland / Margaret Connolly --The lost Jewish libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage / Sem C. Sutter --China's Roosevelt Library / Rui Wang and Yulin Yang --China's destruction of the libraries of Tibet / Rebecca J. Knuth --Burn the books / Robert J. Fyne.