Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books : Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project

• Record Nr.: UNISA996647823803316
• Autore: Iacubovschi Oana
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 9783111068787; 3111068781
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (636 pages)
• Collana: Early Arabic Printing in the East Series ; ; v.4
• Altri autori (Persone): NobleSamuel; FeodorovIoana
• Soggetti: RELIGION / Christianity / History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part 1. The Arabic-Speaking Christians in the Age of Printing -- Le monastère Notre Dame de Balamand, foyer de la culture chrétienne à l’époque ottomane -- Makarios III Ibn al‑Zaʻīm and the Council of Florence -- The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’s Arabic Bibles -- Des moines et des livres : une imprimerie arabe chez les basiliens shuwayrites (melkites grecs-catholiques) au XVIIIe siècle -- Part 2. The Avatars of Printing for a Middle Eastern Readership -- Arabic Printing in Italy: Venice as a Case Study -- The First Arabic Book Printed in Lebanon in 1734: A Codicological and Historical Approach -- Prefaces of the 18th-Century Christian Arabic Books Printed in Khinshāra: Structural and Thematic Features -- Considerations on Oskan Erevantsʻi’s Printing Activity -- “Blessings of the Printed Work”: Islamic Scholars (ulemâ) and the Müteferrika Press in Early 18th‑Century Istanbul -- Part 3. Collectors and Collections of Oriental Books from the West to the East -- Ulrich Jasper Seetzen and the Printing Presses of the Ottoman Levant: From Documentation to Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge -- Timotei Cipariu, the First Romanian Scholar of Arabic and Collector of Oriental Books in Transylvania -- Germanos Farḥāt’s Works in Manuscripts Preserved in Romanian Collections -- The Georgian Books of the First Tbilisi Printing Press and Their Artistic ; Decoration (1709–1722) -- Part 4. Artistic Encounters in the Iconography and the Printed Books of the East -- Liens entre les cultures roumaine et arabe chrétienne. Les programmes iconographiques du père Sofian Boghiu au Liban -- Woodcut Tailpieces of the First Arabic Books Printed by Athanasios Dabbās in Aleppo -- The Transfer of Ukrainian Engraving Models to Presses of the Romanian Lands in the 18th Century -- Patriarchs’ and Bishops’ Emblems in Printed Books. The Journey of Prototypes from the West to the East -- Part 5. Patrons of Printing in the 18th and 19th Centuries: the Phanariot Princes and Their Like -- Serbian-Romanian Relations in the Typographical Activity of the 16th–18th Centuries -- The Princely Patronage of Printing in Wallachia under Phanariot Rule -- Nicolae Mavrocordat’s Scholarly Preoccupations as Reflected in the Correspondence of Antonie Epis with Jean le Clerc -- Greek Printing in Wallachia: The Mavrogheni Printing Press in Bucharest (1818–1830) -- Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume collects the proceedings of the second of two conferences organized by the Typarabic project. It presents the research results of the project, with a focus in this second volume on decorative features of Christian Arabic manuscripts from the 18th century.