An edition of Testaments of time (1965)

Testaments of time

the search for lost manuscripts and records

Testaments of time
Leo Deuel, Leo Deuel
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An edition of Testaments of time (1965)

Testaments of time

the search for lost manuscripts and records

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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Pages
590

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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

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1965

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
091.09
Library of Congress
Z105 .D4

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxii, 590, xxi pages
Number of pages
590

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44765987M
OCLC/WorldCat
15744133

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