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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Towards the Encyclopedism of the 21st Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Christian Jacob
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The New Alexandrian Library is to be inaugurated at the end of 1998 on the royal site of the great ancient metropolis, that is, on the site of the Museum founded by Ptolemy I to enclose his mythical collection of books. This ambitious project of a “public research library “ was undertaken on the initiative of the Egyptian government and has, since 1986, received the support of UNESCO.

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Diogenes , Volume 45 , Issue 178 , June 1997 , pp. 83 - 85
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Copyright © 1997 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Baratin, M. and Jacob, C., eds. Le Pouvoir des Bibliothèques. La mémoire des livres en Occident. Paris: Albin Michel, 1996.Google Scholar
Canfora, L., The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World. Translated by Martin Ryle. Hellenistic Culture and Society, VII. Berkeley: SAGE Publications, 1990. Originally published as La Véritable Histoire de la Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie. (Paris: Desjonquères, 1988).Google Scholar
El-Abbadi, M., Vie et destin de l'ancienne Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie. Paris: UNESCO/PNUD, 1992.Google Scholar
Jacob, C. and de Polignac, F., eds. Alexandrie IIIe siècle av. J.-C. Tous les savoirs du monde ou le rêve d'universalité des Ptolémées. [Currently being translated into English] Paris: Autrement, 1992.Google Scholar
Melot, M., ed., Nouvelles Alexandries. Les grands chantiers de bibliothèques dans le monde. Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, Collection Bibliothèques, 1996.Google Scholar

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“Libraries” in Diogenes, n° 141, (Spring 1988), with articles by: G., Lapouge, “Books in Flames”; M. El-Abbadi, “Aspects of Scholarship and the Library of Ptolemaic Alexandria”; J. Bingen, “The Library of Alexandria: Past and Future.”Google Scholar
“Les Bibliotheques d'Alexanclrge” (project directed by C., Jacob, with the contributions of L., Canfora, F., Lombard, D., Meeks, M., Melot, A., Miquel, F., de Polygnac, C., Orrieux), Préfaces, 12 (March-April 1989): Editions du Publication of the Cercle de la Librairie.Google Scholar