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Browsing through the Sultan's bookshelves : towards a reconstruction of the library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) / Kristof D'hulster.
Van Pelt Library DT96.3.Q36 H85 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hulster, K. d' (Kristof d'), author.
- Series:
- Mamluk studies ; v. 26.
- Mamluk studies, 2198-5375 ; volume 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1516.
- Libraries--Egypt--Cairo--History--16th century.
- Libraries.
- Mamelukes--History.
- Mamelukes.
- History.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Turkic.
- Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1516--Books and reading.
- Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī.
- Books and reading.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Civilization--16th century.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Egypt--Cairo.
- Physical Description:
- 396 pages : 84 illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- G̲ttingen, Germany : V&R unipress ; [Bonn] : Bonn University Press, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. A Library Imagined. On Qanisawh's Cairo and How to Return There
- 2. A Library Browsed. A First Instalment of One Hundred and Thirty-Five Items
- 3. A Library Profiled. Observations on What's In There, and What's Not
- 4. A Library Identified. From the Library of the Man to the Man Behind the Library
- 5. A Library Shattered. Tracing Manuscripts in Post-Mamluk Times
- Excursus. The Library of the Citadel of Aleppo, Anno 1518.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-364) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783847112921
- 3847112929
- OCLC:
- 1261498852
- Publisher Number:
- 99988903064
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