Kommande
Historia
Pocket
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
Said Aljoumani • Konrad Hirschler
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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.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9781474492072
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 394
- Utgivningsdatum: 2024-11-30
- Förlag: Edinburgh University Press