'The manuscripts flew about like butterflies': The break-up of english libraries in the sixteenth century

Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 125-144

  Ramsay, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524255     Document Type: Chapter

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