A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture : The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī

Hirschler, Konrad

A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture : The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī - Edinburgh University Press 2019

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This book 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 ʿAbd al-Hādī Library of Damascus.


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English

9781474451567


European history

History Europe Medieval