Pożyteczne przepisy w sprawie wypożyczania ksiąg uczącym się – wytyczne ochrony i udostępniania zbiorów na podstawie średniowiecznego traktatu Philobiblon Richarda de Bury’ego*
Useful regulations in reference to the lending of books to students – guidelines in reference to the protection and the making accessible of collections on the basis of Richard de Bury’s medieval treatise entitled Philobiblon

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to present the opinions of a medieval bibliophile, Richard de Bury, about the problems of the protection and the making accessible of book collections. There is a presentation of bishop de Bury’s figure, the circumstances in which he wrote the Latin treatise entitled Philobiblon and the state of the art on this subject. His theses about the appropriate handling of books are discussed. By using the quotations drawn from his work, one indicated the problems which were the subject of the author’s particular focus. Particular attention was directed to one of the chapters of the treatise (Useful regulations in reference to the lending of books to students), which de Bury devoted exclusively to the problem of the making accessible of collections to a wider group of recipients. In this chapter he described a body of regulations of a medieval library which he planned to establish in Oxford. The result of the considerations will be associated with the indication of the universality and the innovative nature of the opinions of the author of Philobiblon on the value, protection and the making accessible of collections, whose bulk continues to be relevant to this day.

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