In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book 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. The book suggests that this library was part of the owner’s symbolic strategy to monumentalise a vanishing world of scholarship bound to his life, family, quarter and home city.
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Język Angielski ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781474451598 ● Wydawca Edinburgh University Press ● Opublikowany 2019 ● Do pobrania 3 czasy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 9482912 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Adobe DRM
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