Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan al-Din 1st Edition Said Aljoumani

Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan al-Din 1st Edition Said Aljoumani – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781474492089,1474492088

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• ISBN 10: 1474492088
• ISBN 13: 9781474492089
• Author: Said Aljoumani

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.

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