On Bones and Libraries
A neat essay by Colin Dickey about book-collecting and librarians featured in the Latham's Quarterly Roundtable. From the piece: "Every librarian, every book collector, finds him or herself between these two mythical places--the Perfect Library of God and the Infinite Library of Babel, the one transcribed by Jerome, the other by Borges."
![Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–253) Homilia in Genesim, Homiliae in Exodum, in Latin, translation by Rufinus, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria, Lambach Abbey? c. 1150–1175]. Estimate: $150,000-$200,000.](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card/public/media-images/2026-06/origen.jpeg?itok=0V_4_Lt2)
