Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
The Library of Burhan al-Din
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2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9207-2 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9207-2 (ISBN)
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Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem
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, Burhn al-Dn; 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 aram al-sharf 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.
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, Burhn al-Dn; 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 aram al-sharf 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 49 colour illustrations, 10 black and white tables, 1 black and white map, 1 colour map |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-9207-X / 147449207X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-9207-2 / 9781474492072 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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