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Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
Richard de Bury
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Richard de Bury
Born:
January 24, 1287
Died:
April 14, 1345
(aged 58)
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