Libraries in the Manuscript Age.

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Superior document:Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.29
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Towards a Comparative Study of Libraries in the Manuscript Age
  • The Islamic World
  • The Islamic World
  • Princes's Readings: The Poetry in Mūlāy Zaydān's Collection at El Escorial
  • Collecting Books in Eighteenth-Century Morocco: The Bannānī Library in Fez
  • East and South Asia
  • Two Libraries of the Tang Capital
  • Institutional Libraries in Japan's Classic Court Age (Heian Period, 794-1185)
  • Palm-leaf Manuscript Libraries in Southern India Around the Thirteenth Century: The Sarasvatī Library in Chidambaram
  • Byzantium
  • How Many Books Does It Take to Make an Emperor's Library? Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and a Chapter of History of the Manuscript Book
  • Byzantine Libraries: The Public and the Private
  • Western Europe
  • How Private Libraries Contributed to the Transmission of Texts
  • Libraries and Teaching: Comments on Western Universities in the Middle Ages
  • An Ideal Library for an Ideal King? Showcasing the Collection, Organization and Function of the Royal Louvre Library in Late Medieval Paris
  • Index of Manuscripts.