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Owning books and preserving documents in medieval Jerusalem: the library of Burhan Al-Din

Owning books and preserving documents in medieval Jerusalem: the library of Burhan Al-Din
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ISBN 1474492061 (hardcover)
9781474492065 (hardcover)
Author Jūmānī, Saʻīd Ḍāmin
Title Owning books and preserving documents in medieval Jerusalem : the library of Burhan Al-Din / Said Aljoumani and Konrad Hirschler
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Physical desc. xii, 408 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Series Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Argument and historiographical setting: books, documents and social practice -- Part 1: The narrative. Making a living in endowments -- Beyond endowment -- Archival practices and pragmatic literacy -- Lists and inventories: the sale booklet's documentary logic -- The making and unmaking of a prestige library -- Book prices -- Looking beyond Jerusalem: the dynamics of the written word and its materiality -- Part 2: The documents. Analysis and edition of the sale booklet -- Analysis and edition of the documentary network around the sale booklet -- Appendix 1: Overview of documents linked to Burhān al-Dīn's life and estate -- Appendix 2: Edition of sixteen documents linked to Burhān al-Dīn's life and estate -- Appendix 3: List of edited Haram al-sharif documents.
Person as subject Burhān al-Dīn -- active 14th century -- Library
Burhān al-Dīn -- active 14th century -- Books and reading
Subject Private libraries -- Jerusalem -- History -- To 1500
Book collecting -- Jerusalem -- History -- To 1500
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Jerusalem
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Jerusalem -- Catalogs
Added name(s) Hirschler, Konrad
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