Testaments of time
Subtitle: the search for lost manuscripts and records
By: by Leo Deuel
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
Copyright date: 1965
Subjects: Manuscripts; History; Conservation and restoration
Notes: "A borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 566-590) and index.

Gift of Terry Belanger
Table of contents: title: I. The quest for Cicero : Petrarch; title: II. Humanists in action : Boccaccio and Salutati; title: III. The passionate bookhunter : Poggio Bracciolini; title: IV. Rolls and a villa; title: V. The papyrus of Egypt; title: VII. The traffic in papyri : Wallis Budge; title: VIII. Pearls from the rubbish heap : Grenfell and Hunt; title: IX. Oxyrhynchus revisited; title: X.A book without covers; title: XI. The World's oldest books; title: XII. The bible of the Canaanites; title: XIII. Tischendorf searches for the "best" New Testament; title: XIV. The Codex Sinaiticus; title: XV. Two lady scholars in the Levant; title: XVI. The elusive Diatessaron; title: XVII. More light on the New Testament; title: XVIII. The Cairo geniza.; title: XIX. Caves in the Judean wilderness; title: XX. The Shapira mystery; title: XXI. A profusion of silk, bark, and paper : (a) Inner Asia; title: XXII. In the steps of Marco Polo : Aurel Stein; title: XXIII. The spell of the Mexican picture books : from Humboldt to Kingsborough; title: XXIV. Brasseur discovers Landa and the antediluvians; title: XXV. The Devil exorcised : from Zelia Nuttall to Alfonso Caso.