GlaViWo - Book: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-01492

A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973

AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-01492

Authors:	Harris, Philip Rowland
Published in:	London
Published by:	The British Library Board , 1998

Contents:
This is the first comprehensive history of an institution that for generations enjoyed world renown as a repository of knowledge and a cornerstone of scholarship. Arundell Esdailes's short (though valuable) history of the British Museum library, published in 1946, contains little about events after the end of the 1914-18 War. So with the creation of the British Library in 1973, which absorbed the British Museum library, and the move to a new building at St Pancras, it seemed appropriate in the 1980s to consider producing a large-scale and detailed history of what had been in effect the national library until 1973.
This work contains information on the acquisition of the Glaser Collection of 328 Arabic manuscripts in 1889 which was purchased upon the recommendation of the 'Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts' of the then British Museum Library, Charles Rieu. (pp. 340-341)

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