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Too much to know : managing scholarly information before the modern age

Ann Blair
Examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, focusing on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe.
Print Book, English, 2011
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2011
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 397 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
9780300112511, 0300112513
656769467
Information management in comparative perspective
Note-taking as information management
Reference genres and their finding devices
Compilers, their motivations and methods
The impact of early printed reference books
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