Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan Al-Din
by Aljoumani, Said
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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, 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.
Product Details
- Edinburgh University Pres Brand
- Nov 30, 2024 Pub Date:
- 147449207X ISBN-10:
- 9781474492072 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 9.1 in * 1.1 in * 6.1 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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