Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
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Said Aljoumani
About this book
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Argument and Historiographical Setting: Books, Documents and Social Practice
1 - Part I The Narrative
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1 Making a Living in Endowments
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2 Beyond Endowment
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3 Archival Practices and Pragmatic Literacy
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4 Lists and Inventories: The Sale Booklet’s Documentary Logic
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5 The Making and Unmaking of a Prestige Library
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6 Book Prices
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: The Dynamics of the Written Word and its Materiality
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7 Analysis and Edition of the Sale Booklet
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8 Analysis and Edition of the Documentary Network around the Sale Booklet
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Appendix 1 Overview of Documents Linked to Burhān al-Dīn’s Life and Estate
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Appendix 2 Edition of Sixteen Documents Linked to Burhān al-Dīn’s Life and Estate
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Appendix 3 List of Edited Ḥaram al-sharīf Documents
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Bibliography
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General Index
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Index of Authors in Burhān al-Dīn’s Library
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Index of Book Titles in Burhān al-Dīn’s Library
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Index of Buyers in the Auction of Burhān al-Dīn’s Estate
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Index of Subjects in Burhān al-Dīn’s Library
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Index of Objects Other than Books in Burhān al-Dīn’s Estate
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Index of Ḥaram al-sharīf Documents
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