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Browsing through the Sultan's bookshelves: towards a reconstruction of the library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516)

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Field name	Details
ISBN	3847112929 (hardcover)
ISBN	9783847112921 (hardcover)
Author	Hulster, K. d’ (Kristof d’)
Title	Browsing through the Sultan's bookshelves : towards a reconstruction of the library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) / Kristof D'hulster
Publisher	Göttingen : V&R Unipress, [Bonn] : Bonn University Press, 2021
Physical desc.	396 pages ; 84 illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Series	Mamluk studies 26
Note	CB illustrations: p. 59, fig. 9 (Ar 5479 f.1r); p. 265, fig. 58 (Ar 4169 f.29r); p. 314, fig. 74 (Ar 4205 f.1v).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A library imagined: On Qāniṣawh's Cairo and how to return there -- A library browsed: a first instalment of one hundred and thirty-five items -- A library profiled: observations on what's in there, and what's not -- A library identified: from the library of the man to the man behind the library -- A library shattered: tracing manuscripts in post-Mamluk times -- Excursus: the library of the Citadel of Aleppo, anno 1518.
Person as subject	Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī -- Sultan of Egypt and Syria -1516 -- Library
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4169
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4205
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 5479
	Libraries -- Islamic Empire
	Private libraries -- Islamic Empire
	Mamelukes -- History

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