{"id":3,"date":"2004-07-25T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=3"},"modified":"2004-07-25T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2004-07-25T23:03:22","slug":"philobiblon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Philobiblon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering where the lovely word comes from, it is from the title of a book by Richard de Bury (1281-1345), <em>The Love of Books, Being the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury<\/em>. Here&#8217;s a sample from my 1903 version, &#8220;newly translated into English by E.C. Thomas&#8221; (Alexander Moring, London): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Almighty Author and Lover of peace, scatter the nations that delight in war, which is above all plagues injurious to books. For wars being without the control of reason make a wild assault on everything they come across, and, lacking the check of reason they push on without discretion or distinction to destroy the vessels of reason.&#8221; (p.46)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering where the lovely word comes from, it is from the title of a book by Richard de Bury (1281-1345), The Love of Books, Being the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury. Here&#8217;s a sample from my 1903 version, &#8220;newly translated into English by E.C. Thomas&#8221; (Alexander Moring, London): &#8220;Almighty Author and Lover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}