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Autore |
Hirschler Konrad |
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Titolo |
A monument to medieval Syrian book culture : the library of Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi / / Konrad Hirschler [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh University Press, 2019 |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020 |
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ISBN |
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1-4744-7683-X |
1-4744-5159-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 612 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture |
Edinburgh scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Private libraries - Syria - Damascus - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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