Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books: Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project

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Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books

Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project

Edited by: Oana Iacubovschi , Samuel Noble and Ioana Feodorov
Funded by: European Research Council

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 4 | Early Arabic Printing in the East

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This edited volume collects the proceedings of the second of two conferences organized by the Typarabic project. It presents the research results of the project, with a focus in this second volume on decorative features of Christian Arabic manuscripts from the 18th century.

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Oana Iacubovschi, The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, Samuel Noble, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Ioana Feodorov, The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Preface Ioana Feodorov Open Access Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	XIII
Part 1. The Arabic-Speaking Christians in the Age of Printing
Le monastère Notre Dame de Balamand, foyer de la culture chrétienne à l’époque ottomane Souad Slim Open Access Download PDF	1
Makarios III Ibn al‑Zaʻīm and the Council of Florence Bishara Ebeid Open Access Download PDF	25
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’s Arabic Bibles Simon Mills Open Access Download PDF	83
Des moines et des livres : une imprimerie arabe chez les basiliens shuwayrites (melkites grecs-catholiques) au XVIIIe siècle Aurélien Girard Open Access Download PDF	111
Part 2. The Avatars of Printing for a Middle Eastern Readership
Arabic Printing in Italy: Venice as a Case Study Antonella Ghersetti Open Access Download PDF	139
The First Arabic Book Printed in Lebanon in 1734: A Codicological and Historical Approach Joseph Moukarzel Open Access Download PDF	157
Prefaces of the 18th-Century Christian Arabic Books Printed in Khinshāra: Structural and Thematic Features Yulia Petrova Open Access Download PDF	187
Considerations on Oskan Erevantsʻi’s Printing Activity David Neagu Open Access Download PDF	203
“Blessings of the Printed Work”: Islamic Scholars (ulemâ) and the Müteferrika Press in Early 18th‑Century Istanbul Radu Dipratu Open Access Download PDF	227
Part 3. Collectors and Collections of Oriental Books from the West to the East
Ulrich Jasper Seetzen and the Printing Presses of the Ottoman Levant: From Documentation to Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge Feras Krimsti Open Access Download PDF	241
Timotei Cipariu, the First Romanian Scholar of Arabic and Collector of Oriental Books in Transylvania Mircea-Gheorghe Abrudan Open Access Download PDF	273
Germanos Farḥāt’s Works in Manuscripts Preserved in Romanian Collections Nicholas Bishara Open Access Download PDF	293
The Georgian Books of the First Tbilisi Printing Press and Their Artistic Decoration (1709–1722) Nino Kavtaria Open Access Download PDF	315
Part 4. Artistic Encounters in the Iconography and the Printed Books of the East
Liens entre les cultures roumaine et arabe chrétienne. Les programmes iconographiques du père Sofian Boghiu au Liban Nada Hélou Open Access Download PDF	359
Woodcut Tailpieces of the First Arabic Books Printed by Athanasios Dabbās in Aleppo Oana Iacubovschi Open Access Download PDF	389
The Transfer of Ukrainian Engraving Models to Presses of the Romanian Lands in the 18th Century Anca Elisabeta Tatay and Cornel Tatai-Baltă Open Access Download PDF	423
Patriarchs’ and Bishops’ Emblems in Printed Books. The Journey of Prototypes from the West to the East Alina Kondratiuk Open Access Download PDF	459
Part 5. Patrons of Printing in the 18th and 19th Centuries: the Phanariot Princes and Their Like
Serbian-Romanian Relations in the Typographical Activity of the 16th–18th Centuries Mihail-George Hâncu Open Access Download PDF	495
The Princely Patronage of Printing in Wallachia under Phanariot Rule Daniela Lupu Open Access Download PDF	525
Nicolae Mavrocordat’s Scholarly Preoccupations as Reflected in the Correspondence of Antonie Epis with Jean le Clerc Andreea-Mihaela Badea Open Access Download PDF	557
Greek Printing in Wallachia: The Mavrogheni Printing Press in Bucharest (1818–1830) Ștefan Petrescu Open Access Download PDF	579
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	613

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eBook published on:

February 17, 2025

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9783111068787

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February 17, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111068473

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

621

Illustrations:

80

Coloured Illustrations:

57

Tables:

13

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111068787

eBook ISBN: 9783111068787

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111068473

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Iconography; Paleography; Arabic printing; Arabic manuscripts

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Scholars of History, Arabic Studies, and Islamic Studies

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