A monument to medieval Syrian book culture the library of Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi

This work discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hirschler, Konrad, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Edinburgh University Press 2019
2020.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
Edinburgh scholarship online.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430286606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Setting the Scene: The World of a Late Medieval Middling Scholar
  • 2 Monumentalising the Past
  • 3 Binding Matters – From Stand-alone Booklet to Monumental Composite Manuscript
  • 4 Conclusion: The After-life of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Collection
  • 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification. Part I
  • 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification. Part II
  • 6 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Edition
  • Bibliography Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Titles
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Thematic Categories
  • Index of Identified Manuscripts of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Corpus