The Islamic World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Towards a Comparative Study of Libraries in the Manuscript Age 1
4. The Islamic World
5. The Islamic World 17
6. Princes’s Readings: The Poetry in Mūlāy Zaydān’s Collection at El Escorial 39
7. Collecting Books in Eighteenth-Century Morocco: The Bannānī Library in Fez 63
8. East and South Asia
9. Two Libraries of the Tang Capital 107
10. Institutional Libraries in Japan’s Classic Court Age (Heian Period, 794–1185) 123
11. Palm-leaf Manuscript Libraries in Southern India Around the Thirteenth Century: The Sarasvatī Library in Chidambaram 135
12. Byzantium
13. How Many Books Does It Take to Make an Emperor’s Library? Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and a Chapter of History of the Manuscript Book 161
14. Byzantine Libraries: The Public and the Private 183
15. Western Europe
16. How Private Libraries Contributed to the Transmission of Texts 211
17. Libraries and Teaching: Comments on Western Universities in the Middle Ages 225
18. An Ideal Library for an Ideal King? Showcasing the Collection, Organization and Function of the Royal Louvre Library in Late Medieval Paris 243
19. Index of Manuscripts 265