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A monument to medieval Syrian book culture: the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī

A monument to medieval Syrian book culture: the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī
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ISBN 1474451578 (softcover)
9781474451574 (softcover)
Author Hirschler, Konrad
Title A monument to medieval Syrian book culture : the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī / Konrad Hirschler
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020
Physical desc. x, 612 pages, 78 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (black and white, and color), maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Series Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and (pages 555-573) indexes.
Contents Introduction -- Setting the scene: the world of a late medieval middling scholar -- Monumentalising the past -- Binding matters: from stand-alone booklet to monumental composite manuscript -- Conclusion: the after-life of the Ibn 'Abd al-Hādī collection -- The Ibn 'Abd al-Hādī fihrist: title identification abbreviations -- The Ibn 'Abd al-Hādī fihrist -- The Ibn 'Abd al-Hādī fihrist: edition.
Language Note In English with one chapter in Arabic.
Person as subject Ibn al-Mibrad, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan -- 1436 or 1437-1503 -- Library
Subject Maktabat al-Asad (Damascus, Syria) -- Manuscript -- 3190
Private libraries -- Syria -- Damascus -- History
Manuscripts, Arabic
Books and reading -- Syria -- History -- To 1500
Syria -- Intellectual life -- History
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