A monument to medieval Syrian book culture: the library of Ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī
This work 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 Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
[2020]©2020, 2020
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This work 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 Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus |
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| Physical Description: | x, 612 pages, 78 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (black and white, and color), maps, facsimiles |
| ISBN: | 147445156X 9781474451567 |