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Table of Contents
I. The quest for Cicero : Petrarch
II. Humanists in action : Boccaccio and Salutati
III. The passionate bookhunter : Poggio Bracciolini
IV. Rolls and a villa
V. The papyrus of Egypt
VII. The traffic in papyri : Wallis Budge
VIII. Pearls from the rubbish heap : Grenfell and Hunt
IX. Oxyrhynchus revisited
X.A book without covers
XI. The World's oldest books
XII. The bible of the Canaanites
XIII. Tischendorf searches for the "best" New Testament
XIV. The Codex Sinaiticus
XV. Two lady scholars in the Levant
XVI. The elusive Diatessaron
XVII. More light on the New Testament
XVIII. The Cairo geniza.
XIX. Caves in the Judean wilderness
XX. The Shapira mystery
XXI. A profusion of silk, bark, and paper : (a) Inner Asia
XXII. In the steps of Marco Polo : Aurel Stein
XXIII. The spell of the Mexican picture books : from Humboldt to Kingsborough
XXIV. Brasseur discovers Landa and the antediluvians
XXV. The Devil exorcised : from Zelia Nuttall to Alfonso Caso.
Edition Notes
"A borzoi book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 566-590) and index.
Gift of Terry Belanger
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