Richard de Bury

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The Philobiblon of Richard De Bury , Volume 1, is a celebrated medieval treatise on the love of books. Written by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham and a noted bibliophile of the 14th century, this wo...

The Philobiblon of Richard De Bury , Volume 1, is a celebrated medieval treatise on the love of books. Written by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham and a noted bibliophile of the 14th century, this wo...

English Version This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of Ameri

Le roi, âgé de vingt-six ans, avait, par les conseils et la prudente conduite de la reine, sa mère, rétabli l'autorité royale à peu près au même état où la sagesse et la fermeté de son père et de son ...

Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of books. He was an obsessive book-collector who argued that no price should hinder someone from buying boo...

[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly re...