Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
€ 132,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781474492065 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Konrad Hirschler, Said Aljoumani |
| Editora | Edinburgh University Press |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 394 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,828 |
| Data de Publicação | 23/02/2023 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 125,38 |
| Imposto | € 7,52 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 132,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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, Burhan al-Din; 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-sharif 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.