What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria?

What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? / edited by Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia Mounir Fathallah ; with a preface by Ismail Serageldin.

"This book covers a wide range of topics, beginning with an initial presentation of different Ancient Egyptian types of library institutions, with a special focus on the later Coptic Nag Hamadi Library. It then deals with the troubled times under later Ptolemies and Romans, when the Royal Libra...

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Other Authors: El-Abbadi, Mostafa, Fathallah, Omnia Mounir
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Library of the written word ; 3.
Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Alexandrian Library.
Alexandrian Library
Alexandria / Alexandrinische Bibliothek.
To 400
Libraries > Egypt > Alexandria > History > To 400.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > Archives & Special Libraries.
Libraries
Oudheid.
Bibliotheken.
Egypt > Alexandria
Alexandrië.
History
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Summary:"This book covers a wide range of topics, beginning with an initial presentation of different Ancient Egyptian types of library institutions, with a special focus on the later Coptic Nag Hamadi Library. It then deals with the troubled times under later Ptolemies and Romans, when the Royal Library, the Daughter Library and the Mouseion, came under a succession of threats: Caesar's Alexandrian War in 48 B.C., and during the tragic developments in the third and fourth centuries which ultimately culminated in the destruction of the Serapeum that housed the Daughter Library."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 259 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.
ISBN:9789047433026
9047433025
1283060698
9781283060691
9786613060693
6613060690
ISSN:1874-4834 ;
Language:In English with 2 chapters in French.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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