Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
The Library of Burhan al-Din
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474492072
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 49 colour illustrations, 10 black and white tables, 1 black and white map, 1 colour map 616
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Short description:
Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem
MoreLong description:
This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burhān al-Dīn; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list – edited and translated in this volume – shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that book ownership extended beyond the elite. Based on a corpus of almost fifty documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf collection in Jerusalem, it is also possible to get a rare insight into the social world of such an individual. Finally, the book gives a unique insight into book prices as it will make available the largest such set of data for the pre-Ottoman period.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Argument and Historiographical Setting: Books, Documents and Social Practice Part I The Narrative1 Making a Living in Endowments 2 Beyond Endowment 3 Archival Practices and Pragmatic Literacy4 Lists and Inventories: The Sale Booklet’s Documentary Logic 5 The Making and Unmaking of a Prestige Library 6 Book Prices Looking Beyond Jerusalem: The Dynamics of the Written Word and its Materiality Part II The Documents7 Analysis and Edition of the Sale Booklet8 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 Ḥaram al-sharīf DocumentsBibliography General Index Index of Authors in Burhān al-Dīn’s LibraryIndex of Book Titles in Burhān al-Dīn’s LibraryIndex of Buyers in the Auction of Burhān al-Dīn’s EstateIndex of Subjects in Burhān al-Dīn’s LibraryIndex of Objects Other than Books in Burhān al-Dīn’s EstateIndex of Ḥaram al-sharīf Documents
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