Owning books and preserving documents in Medieval Jerusalem

Name: Owning books and preserving documents in Medieval Jerusalem
Author: Ǧūmānī, Saʿīd al-

Title	Owning books and preserving documents in Medieval Jerusalem
Author	Ǧūmānī, Saʿīd al-
Publication Date:	2023
Publication Place	[Edinburgh] - Edinburgh University Press
Subject	Bibliothèques privées - Jérusalem - Histoire - Jusqu'à 1500, Manuscrits médiévaux - Jérusalem, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Book collecting, Books and reading, Libraries, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Medieval, Private libraries, History
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	408
Library:	University of Heidelberg
Library Asset ID	978-1-4744-9208-9, 1-4744-9208-8, 978-1-4744-9209-6
Record ID	69141150
Date	2023
Sample Text	Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem Translates, edits and discusses the most important Arabic medieval book list for Jerusalem - the largest known dataset on book pricesRethinks the notion of archival and documentary practices in the Mamluk period Provides a new angle on the economic history of the book in the late-medieval period Combines social history and material philology in the field of Middle Eastern historyIn the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily identifiable compact corpus. Writing their histories, understanding their social settings and comprehending their intellectual profiles is therefore a challenge.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
Bibliyografik Not	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: ALJOUMANI, SAID: OWNING BOOKS AND PRESERVING DOCUMENTS IN MEDIEVAL JERUSALEM. - [S.l.] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2023
Dipnotlar	Includes bibliographical references and index
Toplam başlık serisi	Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
İllüstrasyonlar	illustrations (some color)
Yerel URL (Üniversite Kütüphanesi)	full text
Katkıda Bulunanlar	Hirschler, Konrad
Yazı Dili	English text, with some text in Arabic

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University of Heidelberg

Owning books and preserving documents in Medieval Jerusalem

Author Ǧūmānī, Saʿīd al-

Publication Date 2023

Publication Place [Edinburgh] - Edinburgh University Press

Subject Bibliothèques privées - Jérusalem - Histoire - Jusqu'à 1500, Manuscrits médiévaux - Jérusalem, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Book collecting, Books and reading, Libraries, Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Medieval, Private libraries, History

Type Book

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 408

Library University of Heidelberg

Library Asset ID 978-1-4744-9208-9, 1-4744-9208-8, 978-1-4744-9209-6

Record ID 69141150

Date 2023

Sample Text Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem Translates, edits and discusses the most important Arabic medieval book list for Jerusalem - the largest known dataset on book pricesRethinks the notion of archival and documentary practices in the Mamluk period Provides a new angle on the economic history of the book in the late-medieval period Combines social history and material philology in the field of Middle Eastern historyIn the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily identifiable compact corpus. Writing their histories, understanding their social settings and comprehending their intellectual profiles is therefore a challenge.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

Bibliyografik Not Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: ALJOUMANI, SAID: OWNING BOOKS AND PRESERVING DOCUMENTS IN MEDIEVAL JERUSALEM. - [S.l.] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2023

Dipnotlar Includes bibliographical references and index

Toplam başlık serisi Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

İllüstrasyonlar illustrations (some color)

Yerel URL (Üniversite Kütüphanesi) full text

Katkıda Bulunanlar Hirschler, Konrad

Yazı Dili English text, with some text in Arabic