Tarn, W.W. (1928). "Ptolemy II". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 14(3/4), 246–260. The Byzantine writer Tzetzes gives a similar figure in his essay On Comedy.
De Sacy, Relation de l'Egypte par Abd al-Latif, Paris, 1810. Translated by Roger Pearse. Archived 11 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine. "Above the column of the pillars is a dome supported by this column. I think this building was the portico where Aristotle taught, and after him his disciples; and that this was the academy that Alexander built when he built this city, and where was placed the library which Amr ibn-Alas burned, with the permission of Omar."
MacLeod 2000, p. 71. "The story first appears 500 years after the Arab conquest of Alexandria. John the Grammarian appears to be John Philoponus, who must have been dead by the time of the conquest. It seems, as shown above, that both of the Alexandrian libraries were destroyed by the end of the fourth century, and there is no mention of any library surviving at Alexandria in the Christian literature of the centuries following that date. It is also suspicious that Omar is recorded to have made the same remark about books found by the Arab during their conquest of Iran." MacLeod, Roy (2000), "Introduction: Alexandria in History and Myth", in MacLeod, Roy (ed.), The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World, New York City, New York and London, England: I.B.Tauris Publishers, pp. 1–18, ISBN978-1-85043-594-5
Tocatlian 1991, p. 256. Tocatlian, Jacques (September 1991), "Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Reviving a legacy of the past for a brighter common future", International Library Review, 23 (3), Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier: 255–269, doi:10.1016/0020-7837(91)90034-W
Diana, Delia (December 1992). "From Romance to Rhetoric: The Alexandrian Library in Classical and Islamic Traditions". The American Historical Review. 97 (5): 1449–1467. doi:10.2307/2165947. JSTOR2165947.
Tocatlian 1991, p. 265. Tocatlian, Jacques (September 1991), "Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Reviving a legacy of the past for a brighter common future", International Library Review, 23 (3), Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier: 255–269, doi:10.1016/0020-7837(91)90034-W
Tocatlian 1991, pp. 265–266. Tocatlian, Jacques (September 1991), "Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Reviving a legacy of the past for a brighter common future", International Library Review, 23 (3), Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier: 255–269, doi:10.1016/0020-7837(91)90034-W
Tocatlian 1991, p. 266. Tocatlian, Jacques (September 1991), "Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Reviving a legacy of the past for a brighter common future", International Library Review, 23 (3), Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier: 255–269, doi:10.1016/0020-7837(91)90034-W
Tocatlian 1991, p. 259. Tocatlian, Jacques (September 1991), "Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Reviving a legacy of the past for a brighter common future", International Library Review, 23 (3), Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier: 255–269, doi:10.1016/0020-7837(91)90034-W
Diana, Delia (December 1992). "From Romance to Rhetoric: The Alexandrian Library in Classical and Islamic Traditions". The American Historical Review. 97 (5): 1449–1467. doi:10.2307/2165947. JSTOR2165947.
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De Sacy, Relation de l'Egypte par Abd al-Latif, Paris, 1810. Translated by Roger Pearse. Archived 11 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine. "Above the column of the pillars is a dome supported by this column. I think this building was the portico where Aristotle taught, and after him his disciples; and that this was the academy that Alexander built when he built this city, and where was placed the library which Amr ibn-Alas burned, with the permission of Omar."
Samir Khalil. "L'utilisation d'al-Qifṭī par la Chronique arabe d'Ibn al-'Ibrī († 1286)". In Samir Khalil Samir, ed. Actes du IIe symposium syro-arabicum (Sayyidat al-Bīr, septembre 1998). Études arabes chrétiennes, = Parole de l'Orient 28 (2003) 551–598. An English translation of the passage in Al-Qifti by Emily Cottrell of Leiden University is acceptable at the Roger Pearse blog. Archived 11 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Ed. Pococke, p. 181, translation on p. 114. Translated by Roger Pearse. Archived 15 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Latin: Quod ad libros quorum mentionem fecisti: si in illis contineatur, quod cum libro Dei conveniat, in libro Dei [est] quod sufficiat absque illo; quod si in illis fuerit quod libro Dei repugnet, neutiquam est eo [nobis] opus, jube igitur e medio tolli. Jussit ergo Amrus Ebno'lAs dispergi eos per balnea Alexandriae, atque illis calefaciendis comburi; ita spatio semestri consumpti sunt. Audi quid factum fuerit et mirare.
De Sacy, Relation de l'Egypte par Abd al-Latif, Paris, 1810. Translated by Roger Pearse. Archived 11 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine. "Above the column of the pillars is a dome supported by this column. I think this building was the portico where Aristotle taught, and after him his disciples; and that this was the academy that Alexander built when he built this city, and where was placed the library which Amr ibn-Alas burned, with the permission of Omar."
Samir Khalil. "L'utilisation d'al-Qifṭī par la Chronique arabe d'Ibn al-'Ibrī († 1286)". In Samir Khalil Samir, ed. Actes du IIe symposium syro-arabicum (Sayyidat al-Bīr, septembre 1998). Études arabes chrétiennes, = Parole de l'Orient 28 (2003) 551–598. An English translation of the passage in Al-Qifti by Emily Cottrell of Leiden University is acceptable at the Roger Pearse blog. Archived 11 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Ed. Pococke, p. 181, translation on p. 114. Translated by Roger Pearse. Archived 15 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Latin: Quod ad libros quorum mentionem fecisti: si in illis contineatur, quod cum libro Dei conveniat, in libro Dei [est] quod sufficiat absque illo; quod si in illis fuerit quod libro Dei repugnet, neutiquam est eo [nobis] opus, jube igitur e medio tolli. Jussit ergo Amrus Ebno'lAs dispergi eos per balnea Alexandriae, atque illis calefaciendis comburi; ita spatio semestri consumpti sunt. Audi quid factum fuerit et mirare.
Lewis, Bernard; Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (27 September 1990). "The Vanished Library by Bernard Lewis". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 16 November 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2006.