The Literary Polyhistor

Preface

Prolegomena

Book 1

1. On Polymathy

2. On Literary History

3. On the Matter of a Librarian

4. On the Means of Establishing Libraries

5. On the Order of Libraries, and on their Destruction

6. On Librarians and the Aquiring of Library Knowledge

7. On Manuscripts

8. On Condemned Books

9. On Pseudonyms and Anonymous Writings

10. On Mystical and Secret Books

11. On More Secret Physical Books, Especially Chemical Ones

12. An Excursus on What is Divine in the Disciplines

13. On Secret Colleges

14. On Other Societies of the Learned

15. On Learned Conversation

16. On Writers Revelant to Libraries and Literary Matters

17. On Librarian Writers

18. On Writers of Catalogues

19. On the Writer of Lives

20. On the Benefit of the Whole History of Libraries

21. On Writers of Commonplaces

22. On the Same Subject and On Polygraphs

23. On Writers of Letters

24. Continuation of the Previous Argument

25. The Unpublished Letters of the Learned