{"product_id":"9781474492072-owning-books-and-preserving-documents-in-medieval-jerusalem-the-library-of-burhan-al-din","title":"Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Library of Burhan al-Din\u003cbr\u003eExplores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41699445309537,"sku":"9781474492072","price":39.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41660206_cf8ee9c6-a64d-44d5-9e97-ed4eb029234d.jpg?v=1781787458","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474492072-owning-books-and-preserving-documents-in-medieval-jerusalem-the-library-of-burhan-al-din","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}