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Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library And The Origins Of Bibliography
Author: Blum, Rudolf; Author: Translator Wellisch, Hans H.
Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Hardback; Book 282 pages Published: January 1992 University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029913170X
First English edition of this study of the Alexandrian Library, published in German in 1977. The author argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene, the second director of the library, was the inventor of two essential scholarly tools: the library catalogue and the bibliographical reference work.

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