LEADER 02904nam 2200373 450 001 9910684569703321 005 20230510105215.0 035 $a(CKB)5600000000596260 035 $a(NjHacI)995600000000596260 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000596260 100 $a20230510d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOwning books and preserving documents in medieval Jerusalem $ethe library of Burhan al-Din /$fSai?d al- Gu?ma?ni?, Konrad Hirschler 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 408 pages) 225 1 $aEdinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture 311 $a1-4744-9209-6 330 $aExplores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem Translates, edits and discusses the most important Arabic medieval book list for Jerusalem - the largest known dataset on book pricesRethinks the notion of archival and documentary practices in the Mamluk period Provides a new angle on the economic history of the book in the late-medieval period Combines social history and material philology in the field of Middle Eastern historyIn the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily identifiable compact corpus. Writing their histories, understanding their social settings and comprehending their intellectual profiles is therefore a challenge.This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burha?n al-Di?n; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list - edited and translated in this volume - shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that book ownership extended beyond the elite. Based on a corpus of almost fifty documents from the H?aram al-shari?f collection in Jerusalem, it is also possible to get a rare insight into the social world of such an individual. Finally, the book gives a unique insight into book prices as it will make available the largest such set of data for the pre-Ottoman period. 410 0$aEdinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture. 606 $aArabic literature 615 0$aArabic literature. 676 $a892.708 700 $aal- Gu?ma?ni?$b Sai?d$01357256 702 $aHirschler$b Konrad 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910684569703321 996 $aOwning books and preserving documents in medieval Jerusalem$93362885 997 $aUNINA