TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bury,Richard de
AU  - Thomas,Ernest Chester
TI  - The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
AV  - Z 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Book collecting
KW  - Manuscripts, Medieval -- Collectors and collecting
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philobiblon; Release date is 1996-08-01; Produced by Charles Keller.  HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury" by Richard de Bury is a collection of essays written in 1345. This medieval treatise explores the acquisition, preservation, and organization of books through twenty chapters. Written in Latin by an English bibliophile, it aims to encourage learning, justify the author's devotion to books, and provide practical library management advice. The work contains innovations in circulation control and references the Bible extensively, becoming one of the longest medieval texts on its subject. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/626
ER  -