# A brief outline of the history of libraries

Author: Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606; Dana, John Cotton, 1856-1929 [Translator]

Genre: Libraries -- History -- To 400

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256

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## Summary

If, however, but few of his biographers have devoted themselves to a matter which must have been of no small interest in Lipsius’s life (judging from his enthusiastic manner of treating it), one, at least, has done full justice to it,--a Frenchman, Étienne Gabriel Peignot, who, born in Arc-en-Barrios in 1767, devoted his whole life to the cause of bibliography. The account of this scholar written by Simonnet, in his _Essai sur la vie et les ouvrages de Gabriel Peignot_, 1863, deserves to be on the shelves of every librarian, certainly of every bibliographer.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/12/index.md)
- [did. All of the histories since his time have borrowed freely from](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-brief-outline-of-the-history-of-libraries-78256/chapters/2/index.md)