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.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
394 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Edinburgh University Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2023-02-23 |
| ISBN |
9781474492065 |
