LEADER 04880nam 22005295 450 001 9910739490203321 005 20240731182122.0 010 $a1-4744-9208-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474492089 035 $a(CKB)26384965700041 035 $a(DE-B1597)645161 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474492089 035 $a(ScCtBLL)dac093f7-d634-4aed-9ea9-e45fffe75a02 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30256472 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30256472 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926384965700041 100 $a20230328h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEdinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem $eThe Library of Burhan al-Din /$fSaid Aljoumani 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (394 p.) $c49 colour illustrations 10 B/W tables 225 1 $aEdinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgements --$tArgument and Historiographical Setting: Books, Documents and Social Practice --$tPart I The Narrative --$t1 Making a Living in Endowments --$t2 Beyond Endowment --$t3 Archival Practices and Pragmatic Literacy --$t4 Lists and Inventories: The Sale Booklet?s Documentary Logic --$t5 The Making and Unmaking of a Prestige Library --$t6 Book Prices --$tLooking Beyond Jerusalem: The Dynamics of the Written Word and its Materiality --$tPart II The Documents --$t7 Analysis and Edition of the Sale Booklet --$t8 Analysis and Edition of the Documentary Network around the Sale Booklet --$tAppendix 1 Overview of Documents Linked to Burh?n al-D?n?s Life and Estate --$tAppendix 2 Edition of Sixteen Documents Linked to Burh?n al-D?n?s Life and Estate --$tAppendix 3 List of Edited ?aram al-shar?f Documents --$tBibliography --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex of Authors in Burh?n al-D?n?s Library --$tIndex of Book Titles in Burh?n al-D?n?s Library --$tIndex of Buyers in the Auction of Burh?n al-D?n?s Estate --$tIndex of Subjects in Burh?n al-D?n?s Library --$tIndex of Objects Other than Books in Burh?n al-D?n?s Estate --$tIndex of ?aram al-shar?f Documents 330 $aExplores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem Translates, edits and discusses the most important Arabic medieval book list for Jerusalem ? the largest known dataset on book pricesRethinks the notion of archival and documentary practices in the Mamluk period Provides a new angle on the economic history of the book in the late-medieval period Combines social history and material philology in the field of Middle Eastern historyIn the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily identifiable compact corpus. Writing their histories, understanding their social settings and comprehending their intellectual profiles is therefore a challenge.This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burh?n al-D?n; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list ? edited and translated in this volume ? shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that book ownership extended beyond the elite. Based on a corpus of almost fifty documents from the ?aram al-shar?f collection in Jerusalem, it is also possible to get a rare insight into the social world of such an individual. Finally, the book gives a unique insight into book prices as it will make available the largest such set of data for the pre-Ottoman period. 410 0$aEdinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture 606 $aBook collecting$zJerusalem$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aManuscripts, Arabic$zJerusalem$vCatalogs 606 $aManuscripts, Arabic$zJerusalem 606 $aHISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine$2bisacsh 615 0$aBook collecting$xHistory 615 0$aManuscripts, Arabic 615 0$aManuscripts, Arabic 615 7$aHISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine. 676 $a002.075 700 $aAljoumani$b Said $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01262162 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910739490203321 996 $aEdinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem$93088794 997 $aUNINA