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Record Nr.

UNINA9910377436103321

Autore

Hirschler Konrad

Titolo

A monument to medieval Syrian book culture : the library of Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi / / Konrad Hirschler [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4744-7683-X

1-4744-5159-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 612 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Collana

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Classificazione

NM 3710

Disciplina

027.1569144

Soggetti

Private libraries - Syria - Damascus - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.