Collectors' knowledge : : what is kept, what is discarded / / edited by Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony T. Grafton, and Paul Michel ; with the assistance of Adam Blauhut.

Drawing on case studies from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, covering Europe and beyond, Collectors’ Knowledge: What is Kept, What is Discarded investigates how knowledge was acquired, organized and sometimes lost. It examines collections of texts and objects—libraries, textbooks, miscell...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; volume 227
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (482 p.)
Notes:The papers collected here were first presented at two international workshops, the first on 2-4 June 2008 at Zurich Central Library, the second on 13-15 May 2010 at the Benedictine Convent of St John in Mustair, now a World Heritage site.
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