“The Pínakes of Callimachus”, Francis J. Witty1958-04 (Internet archiving; backlinks)⁠:

The librarian who is interested in the history of cataloging often meets with references to the Pinakes of Callimachus (ca. 305-ca. 240)—a bibliographical catalogue raisonné, no doubt based on the holdings of the libraries at Alexandria.

However, we are told that this great work, originally in 120 books, survives in only a few fragments; and, for the most part, this is all the information that references give. After encountering many such disappointments, I began to look into the fragments themselves and the literature on them, hoping at least to find them somewhere translated into English.

…I therefore decided to locate the best critical edition of the fragments and to translate them; this paper is the result of that task.

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