THE ATHENAEUMA Brief Outline of the History of LibrariesJustus Lipsius
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A Brief Outline of the History of Libraries
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThe first short history of libraries, written in Latin by the Flemish scholar Lipsius and published in 1602. John Cotton Dana translated it in 1907. It covers the libraries of antiquity in a few elegant pages.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 45 minutes
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #78256. In the public domain in the United States.