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- catalog abstract "Panorama of the astonishing work done to retrieve and restore ancient texts, of the scholar-adventurers who gave us vast new knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Central Asia, and of the origins of the Bible.".
- catalog contributor b1552747.
- catalog created "1965.".
- catalog date "1965".
- catalog date "1965.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1965.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 566-590.".
- catalog description "I. The quest for Cicero : Petrarch -- II. Humanists in action : Boccaccio and Salutati -- III. The passionate bookhunter : Poggio Bracciolini -- IV. Rolls and a villa -- V. The papyrus of Egypt -- VII. The traffic in papyri : Wallis Budge -- VIII. Pearls from the rubbish heap : Grenfell and Hunt -- IX. Oxyrhynchus revisited -- X.A book without covers -- XI. The World's oldest books -- XII. The bible of the Canaanites -- XIII. Tischendorf searches for the "best" New Testament -- XIV. The Codex Sinaiticus -- XV. Two lady scholars in the Levant -- XVI. The elusive Diatessaron -- XVII. More light on the New Testament -- XVIII. The Cairo geniza. -- XIX. Caves in the Judean wilderness -- XX. The Shapira mystery -- XXI. A profusion of silk, bark, and paper : (a) Inner Asia -- XXII. In the steps of Marco Polo : Aurel Stein -- XXIII. The spell of the Mexican picture books : from Humboldt to Kingsborough -- XXIV. Brasseur discovers Landa and the antediluvians -- XXV. The Devil exorcised : from Zelia Nuttall to Alfonso Caso.".
- catalog description "Panorama of the astonishing work done to retrieve and restore ancient texts, of the scholar-adventurers who gave us vast new knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Central Asia, and of the origins of the Bible.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 590, xxi p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Testaments of time.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Testaments of time.".
- catalog issued "1965".
- catalog issued "1965.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Testaments of time.".
- catalog subject "091.09".
- catalog subject "Manuscripts Conservation and restoration.".
- catalog subject "Manuscripts History.".
- catalog subject "Z105 .D4".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. The quest for Cicero : Petrarch -- II. Humanists in action : Boccaccio and Salutati -- III. The passionate bookhunter : Poggio Bracciolini -- IV. Rolls and a villa -- V. The papyrus of Egypt -- VII. The traffic in papyri : Wallis Budge -- VIII. Pearls from the rubbish heap : Grenfell and Hunt -- IX. Oxyrhynchus revisited -- X.A book without covers -- XI. The World's oldest books -- XII. The bible of the Canaanites -- XIII. Tischendorf searches for the "best" New Testament -- XIV. The Codex Sinaiticus -- XV. Two lady scholars in the Levant -- XVI. The elusive Diatessaron -- XVII. More light on the New Testament -- XVIII. The Cairo geniza. -- XIX. Caves in the Judean wilderness -- XX. The Shapira mystery -- XXI. A profusion of silk, bark, and paper : (a) Inner Asia -- XXII. In the steps of Marco Polo : Aurel Stein -- XXIII. The spell of the Mexican picture books : from Humboldt to Kingsborough -- XXIV. Brasseur discovers Landa and the antediluvians -- XXV. The Devil exorcised : from Zelia Nuttall to Alfonso Caso.".
- catalog title "Testaments of time; the search for lost manuscripts and records.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".