TAILIEUCHUNG - Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

In every century for more than two thousand years, many men have owed their chief enjoyment of life to books. The bibliomaniac of today had his prototype in ancient Rome, where book collecting was fashionable as early as the first century of the Christian era. Four centuries earlier there was an active trade in books at Athens, then the center of the book production of the world. This center of literary activity shifted to Alexandria during the third century B. C. through the patronage of Ptolemy Soter, the founder of the Alexandrian Museum, and of his son, Ptolemy Philadelphus; and later to Rome, where it. | Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Author Frederick Somner Merryweather Release Date May 28 2007 EBook 21630 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIBLIOMANIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES Produced by Suzanne Lybarger Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http BIBLIOMANIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES BY F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER With an Introduction by CHARLES ORR Librarian of Case Library NEW YORK MEYER BROTHERS COMPANY 1900 Copyright 1900 By Meyer Bros. Co. Louis Weiss Co. Printers. 118 Fulton Street . New York Bibliomania in the Middle Ages OR SKETCHES OF BOOKWORMS COLLECTORS BIBLE STUDENTS SCRIBES AND ILLUMINATORS From the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods to the Introduction of Printing into England with Anecdotes Illustrating the History of the Monastic Libraries of Great Britain in the Olden Time by F. Somner Merryweather with an Introduction by Charles Orr Librarian of Case Library. INTRODUCTION. In every century for more than two thousand years many men have owed their chief enjoyment of life to books. The bibliomaniac of today had his prototype in ancient Rome where book collecting was fashionable as early as the first century of the Christian era. Four centuries earlier there was an active trade in books at Athens then the center of the book production of the world. This center of literary activity shifted to Alexandria during the third century B. C. through the

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