Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, n. 226/2006, Vesibolo (Scala di Michelangelo) /Microfoto; P. i58 ground plan of Pergamon Library, Author's collection; P. i66 Habott Library, David Sauveur /Agence VU; P. i69 Dunhuang Caves, courtesy of www.worldtravelgate.net; P. i72 Diamond Sutra, copyright © The British Library, Or 82i0/P. 2; P. i8i Kipling portrait, Library of Congress, The Carpenter Kipling Collection, (LC-USZ62-59457); P. i95 Last Jugement fresco, photograph, Thomas Hallon Hallbert; P. i98 Aby Warburg, photograph: Warburg Institute; P. 2i0 Mnemosyne panel, Aby Warburg, Mnemosyne Atlas, panel 32: 'Moreska,' photograph: Warburg Institute; P. 2i6 Robinson Crusoe, Author's Collection; P. 23i Biblioburro, © Oscar Monsalve, 2005; P. 236 German prayer book, Author's collection; P. 24i Birkenau, Russian State Archives of Film and Video Documents; P. 248 Jacob Edelstein, The image of Jacob Edelstein, neg. 5i44 © The Jewish Museum in Prague; P. 249 library in Theresienstadt Ghetto, Author's collection; P. 258 Shah Muhammad Rais, photograph, Ole Berthelsen, TV 2 Nettavisen, Norway; P. 260 Booker T. Washington, Cheynes Studio, Hampton, Virginia, i903; P. 26i Cossitt Library, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries; P. 263 library in Baghdad, Joel Preston Smith, www.joelprestonsmith.com; P. 265 Code of Hammurabi, courtesy of http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH200/ politics/hammurabi.jpg; P. 273 Borges, © Eduardo Comesana; P. 275 Gargantua, C Lebrecht Music & Arts; P. 278 Rabelais's house, Author's collection; P. 28i Sir Thomas Browne, Gwen Raverat, Sir Thomas Browne, i9i0, © DACS/SODART 2006; P. 282 Dickens, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, (LC-USZ62-H7829); P. 283 Paul Masson, Author's collection; P. 286 Captain Nemo's library, Author's collection; P. 289 Hitler's bookplate, Third Reich collection, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress; P. 297 Sir
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Anthony Panizzi, Picture History, Elliott & Fry, 1870; P. 304 books of the Lebanon National Library, Author's collection; P. 309 Dracula, Author's collection; P. 313 Frankenstein, Author's collection.
Index
Page numbers in italic denote illustrations. For any specific library that is cited, see Library, [name] (e.g. Library, Bodleian)
Abd al-Rahman, 195-96 Aeschylus, i07 Akhmatova, Anna, 262 Alexandria Library Scholars Collective. See Library, of Alexandria (modern) al-Maghribi, Abul-Qasim. See Maghribi, Abul-Qasim al al-Mansur, Abi-Amir. See
Mansur, Abit-Amir al- al-Nadim, Ibn. See Ibn al-Nadim alphabetical organization, 13, 40,
47, 50-52 al-Qalqashandi. See
Qalqashandi, al- (Egyptian scholar)
al-Rahman, Abd. See Abd al-
Rahman Ammanati, Bartolomeo, 157 Amnesty International, 126—27 Anderson, Hans Christian, 39 Archaeological Museum (Baghdad), looting of, 262—64, 263 Archimedes, 28 archiving, as an act of hope, 3 Aristarchus of Samothrace, 111, 307
Aristophanes of Byzantium, 110 Aristotle, 20, 33, 194, 217, 219,
293, 317 Ashurbanipal (king), 95—96,
109—10 stele of, 95 Athenaeus of Naucratis, 27 Atwood, Margaret, 51, 243 Auden, W.H., ii4 Augustine, Saint , 43 Auschwitz concentration camp, 236
Austen, Jane, 243 Avicenna (Abou Ali El-Hossein Ibn Sina), 54
Bahktin, Mikhail, 279 Baker, Nicholson, 73—74, 79 Baldwin, James, 260—6i Balzac, Honore de, 269 Battin, Patricia, 75 Becker, May Lamberton, 39 Beckett, Samuel, 245 Beckford, William, i5 Bede, the Venerable, 225 Bell, Vanessa, ii Benedict XVI (pope). See Ratzinger, Joseph (cardinal)
Benjamin, Walter, i3, 42, 224, 226
Bentley, Richard, 295—96 Berberova, Nina, 26i Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp, 242 Birkenau concentration camp, 240—41, 248 survivors of, 241 Birkenhead, Sir John, 280 Biswanger, Otto & Ludwig, 207
Blake, William, ii6, i88, 248 Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas, 6i bookcase at the Bodelian, 38 bookplate of Adolf Hitler, 289 books
affected by the order of their
reading, 196 attitudes toward, 217—20,
223—24 as authoritative, 94—95 burning of, 108, 111, 237—38 the copying of, 301—2 destruction of, 116—17 documenting the loss of, 264—66 emergency storage of, 304 as evidence of our character,
i94
imaginary, 274—77, 279—85, 290, 293—94
magic and, 183—84 on making them our own, 218—19
their potential roles in societies, 217, 223, 232—33, 247 the survival of, 235, 247 the writing of, 269, 27i bookshelves, designs of, 68 Borges, Jorge Luis, 45, 6i, 88, 195, 273, 293, 307 after his blindness, 271—74 in Buenos Aires, 184—88, 220—22 Borzykowski, Tuvia, 237 Boswell, James, 256 Bottero, Jean, ii0
Boullee, Etienne-Louis, i39 sketch of ideal library by, 140 —41 Broch, Hermann, 3i7 Brodsky, Joseph, 30, ii4 Brown, Margaret Wise, 38 Browne, Sir Thomas, 7, 270,
280—8i, 281, 3i7—18 Buber, Martin, 244—45 Buddha, 270
Buddhist stupa & text, 80 Buenos Aires, ii, 42, 72, 272 Bulow, Bernhard von 236 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, i82 Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 6i Burckhardt, Jacob, i79 Burton, Robert, 3
Caesar, Julius, i4—15, 32, 55 Caistor, Nick, 246 Calderon de la Barca, Pedro,
243, 293
Caliph Omar I. See Omar I,
Caliph Callimachus, 50—52, 63, 77 Cam5es, Lrns de, 2i6 Canetti, Elias, 33 —34 Canfora, Luciano, 26, 264 Carlyle, Thomas, 43, 96,
299—300
Carnegie, Andrew, 96—104 his bookplate, 103 cartoon of, 101
philanthropic conditions set by i0i—2
Carnegie, Will, 97
Carroll, Lewis, 65, 70 Carson, Anne, 43 Casares, Adolfo Bioy, 45, 6i,
220—22 Cassirer, Ernst, i98—99 Castro, Fidel, ii7 catalogue(s). See libraries, catalogues and Caxton, William, 68 Cellini, Benvenuto, i52 censorship, 3i, Ю9, ii2—13, ii6 —i7 Cervantes, Miguel de, 94,
i82—83, 293 Chalamov, Varlam, ii5, 32i Chambers, Ephraim, 83 Chandler, Raymond, 44 Charles I, 295 Charpentier, Mai'a, 289 Chekhov, Anton, 44 Chesterton, G.K., 45, 293 Christ, with life-giving vine, 10 Christie, Agatha, 44 Cicero, 7i, i80 Cixi, Empress (China), i2
Boat Palace of, 13 Clemenceau, Georges, 273 Clement VII (pope), i5i—53 Clemente, Jose Edmundo, 274 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, i6—i7, 285 collections, human motives
regarding, 3—4 collections (book), random
natures of, i64—74 Collette, 282—83
computers, memory storage and, 3
Conrad, Joseph, 27, 293 Conti, Haroldo, ii4 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 279 corporations, multinational, 227 Cortazar, Julio, 29 Corvinus, King Matthias, i24 Cotton, Sir Robert, 44-45 Cozarinsky, Edgardo, i95 Cromberger, Jacobo, i20-2i Crusoe, Robinson. See Robinson
Crusoe CyberBook Plus, 78