d'Alembert, Jean le Rond, 8i-84 Dante, 243, 3i5 darkness, effects of, 269-7! data. See information; the Web da Vinci, Leonardo, i60 Decembrio, Angelo, 70 de Cusa, Nicholas, 224 Dee, John, 295
Defoe, Daniel, 43, 2i5, 2i8, 232 de Landa, Diego (Archbishop of
Yucatan), ii8, i22 Delessert, Benjamin, i43-44 de Maistre, Xavier, 5 de Nerval, Gerard, 43 Dennys, Louise, 293 de Otero, Blas, i94 de Quevedo, Francisco, 34 de Sahagun, Friar Bernardino, i22 desire, seen as knowledge, 209 d'Estaing, Valery Giscard, 94 d'Este, Leonello, 70 de Tarazi, Viscount Phillipe, 302 Devoto, Andrea, 242 Dewey, Melvil and his decimal system,
57-60, 62-63, i64 portrait of, 58 Diamond Sutra (oldest printed
book), 172 Dickens, Charles, 28i-82, 282 Diderot, Denis, 8i-86. See also
encyclopedias Dinesen, Isak, i95 Dionysus, 7 Domesday Book display of, 76 electronic, 75 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 5, ii5 Douste-Blazy, Philippe, i25 Dracula, Count Vladislaus, 309,
309-ю, 3i3-14 Duguid, Paul, 228 Dunhuang, caves of, i68-74,
i69
Duran, Diego, i22-23 Durrenmatt, Friedrich, i80
Eco, Umberto, i63, 284 Eddas (Danish MS), i25-26 Edelstein, Jacob, 248, 248-50 Ehrenburg, Ilya, 26i Eisner, Will, 227 electronic media, unreliability
of, 75-80 Eliot, George, 284 Elizabeth I, 295 encyclopedias, 39, 47-50, 52,
82—89, i86 biographical, 49 page from Diderot's, 87 Yongle Dadian, 48 engrams, symbols and, 204 Erasmus, Desiderius, 180, 276,
^ 3^ 317 Euclid, 28 Euripides, i07 Ewart, William, 96
Faulkner, William, 29 Febvre, Lucien, 277—79 Fielding, Henry, 269 the Fihrist (great early
catalogue), 53 Firdausi (Adbul Kasim Mansar), 258
Fitzgerald, Penelope, 324 Flaubert, Gustave, 88 Foster, Norman, 137 Frankenstein's monster,
310—14, 313 Frederick IV (King of
Denmark), i26 Freud, Sigmund, 237 Frye, Northrop, 4, 219, 324
Gaer, Joseph, 43 Gaos, Vicente, 42 Garda, German, 115 Gary, Romain, 246 Gates, William, 226 George II, 296 George, Donny, 264 Gibbon, Edward, 255
Gide, Andre, 237 Gill, Eric, 45 Ginzberg, Louis, 43 Goebbels, Joseph, 237 Goethe, 243 Golding, Arthur, 43 Gongora y Argote, Luis de, 42 Google, 78
Gordian the Younger, Emperor, 255
Gosse, Edmund, 298 Green, Henry, 62 Green, Julian, 42 Greene, Graham, 242 Gretser, Jacob, 116—17 the Grimm brothers, 39 Grivel, Guillaume, 84 Groussac, Paul, 272 Guarino, Battista, 178—79 Guicciardini, Francesco, i52
Hague Peace Conference
(i908) 236 Hammurabi, Code of, 265—66
stele with the, 265 Hedayat, Sadegh, 29 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich, 13 Heine, Heinrich, 242 hell, various imaginings of, 245—46
Hemon, Louis, 67 Henry VIII, 295 Hering, Ewald, 20i Herodas (Greek poet), 25 Hesse, Hermann, 42
Hikmet, Nazim, 115 Hippocrates, 279 Hitler, Adolf, 288—89 Hoessler, Franz, 249—50 Hoffmann, Heinrich, 38 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 80—8i Homer, 14, 111—12, 164, 219, 230,
285, 307
Hope, A.D., ii8 Hugo, Victor, 182, 242, 245, 285 Huxley, Aldous, i07 Huysmans, Joris Karl, 284
Ibn al-Nadim, 52—53, 263 the Iliad, 230 illiteracy, 259
immortality, illusions of, 27—28 information, accumulation of, 3 injustice, 236—50
Jama'a, Ibn, his advice to
readers, i89 James I, 295 James, Henry, 163 Jefferson, Thomas, 72, 270 Jewish culture, 315—16 Jewish Prayer Book, the
author's, 235—237, 236 John, Saint (the Apostle), 270, 323 Johnson, Lionel, 68 Johnson, Samuel, 83, 91, 255—56 justice, the nature of, 244—47
Kafka, Franz, 27, 293 Kastner, Georges, 301 Keats, John, i6, 43
Keller, Helen, 237 Khalikan, Ahmad ibn
Muhammad, 49—50 Khan, Genghis, 168 King, Cyril, 72—73 King Frederick IV. See
Frederick IV (King of Denmark) King Kaiser Wilhelm II, 235 Kipling, Rudyard, 180, 283—84
in his study, 181 Kodama, Maria, i88 Korb, Hermann, 137—38 Korn, Rachel, 262 Krass, Peter, 100—101 Kremer, Johann Paul, 243
Labrouste, Henri, 144—45, 149 ladder, library, 69 Larbaud, Valery, 40 the Last Judgement fresco, 195 Laurence, Margaret, i95 Lawrence of Arabia, 307 Lebanon. See Library,
Lebanon's National Le Breton, Andre-Francois, 83 Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 9i—92
lending books, considerations
about, 7i Leo X (pope), i5i Le Pen, Jean-Marie, i25 Lessing, Doris, 6i Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 20i Lethe (Oblivion), 253 the gifts of, 256—57
Levi, Primo, 113—14 Levi-Strauss, Claude, 43 l'Hermite, Tristan, 9, i2 librairie (the concept), i5 librarians heroic, 72—73, 322—23 rules made by, 103, 109, 113 libraries. See also archiving; books; Library, [named]; the library (author's); memory, libraries and ancient, 20—22 architectural effects upon,
131—61 catalogues and, 52—56 Chinese, 46—50 concentration camp, 240—4i as consolation, 325 "de-accession" of holdings by,
73—74 destruction of, 116—18 documenting lost, 264 electronic/virtual. See also the Web, 18, 41, 75—80, 126, 225—26, 228 as exclusionary, 18—19, 70, 73,
107—27 feelings for and in, 4—5 as foreign lands, 308 futures of, 231—32 as home, 308
imaginary. See also books,
imaginary, 284—85 as introductions to national
culture, 305 limitations upon, 31
mental and fluid, 196—97 as a mirror to the world,
323—24
organizing principles within,
4, 39—63, 197—99, 202—3 as places of memory, 30—32,
197, 201, 203 portable & transported, 230, 231
spatial challenges in, 66—76 as the sum of associations, 203 as symbols of eminence,
95—i04
Library. See also libraries; the library (author's) Abby of St. Gall
(Switzerland), 137 Aby Warburg's, ii—iii, 203—5,
208—9, 211—12 of Alexandria (ancient), 19,
20—34, 50, 55, 322 of Alexandria (modern),
22—23, 23, 77—78 Althorp, ladder in, 69 Ambrosiana (old; Milan), 137
Biblioteca de Catalunya (Barcelona), 132, 137 Bibliotheque de France, 135, 137
Bibliotheque Nationale
(Paris), 283, 301, 142, 148 Bibliotheque Saint-
Genevieve, 144 Bodleian, 78 British Museum, 44, 73—74,
44^ i7i,i73-74, 296-300 Buckingham House, i32, i37 Buddhist caves (Mogao,
China), i67-68 Bukhara, 54 Carnegie (Jackson, Mississippi), i02 Carnegie (Reading,
Pennsylvania), i02 Carolingian monastery, 136 Centre Pompidou (Paris), i" Chinese Imperial, 46 Colegio Nacional de Buenos
Aires, 8, ii, ii2 of Congress (United States of America), 22, 43-44, 72-74, 74, 79-80, 288 Cossitt (Memphis,