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A monument to medieval Syrian book culture : the library of Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi / Konrad Hirschler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirschler, Konrad, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1306-1344--Library.
- Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad.
- Private libraries--Syria--Damascus--History.
- Private libraries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 612 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh University Press 2019
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work 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-Hadi Library of Damascus.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 ʿAbd al-Hādī Collection
- 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification. Part I
- 5 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification. Part II
- 6 The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Edition
- Bibliography Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Titles
- Index of Authors
- Index of Thematic Categories
- Index of Identified Manuscripts of the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Corpus
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 1, 2020).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781474476836
- 147447683X
- 9781474451598
- 1474451594
- OCLC:
- 1312726393
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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