A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ?Abd Al-H?D?

ISBN-13: 9781474451574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 624 str.

Konrad Hirschler

Opis

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-H?d? 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

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Setting the Scene: The World of a Late Medieval Middling Scholar; 2. Monumentalising the Past; 3. Binding Matters – From Stand-Alone Booklet to Monumental Composite Manuscript; 4. Conclusion: The After-Life of the Ibn ?Abd al-H?d? Collection; 5. The Ibn ?Abd al-H?d? fihrist: Title Identification; 6. The Ibn ?Abd al-H?d? fihrist: Edition; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Titles; Index of Authors; Index of Thematic Categories.