Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto

A Brief Catalogue

Eleazar Birnbaum (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-38821-5 (ISBN)

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Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto contains many early copies, some from the 6th A.H. /12thh C.E. century onwards. While descriptions are arranged by subject, author and title indexes are provided, as well as photographs of pages of some notable manuscripts.

Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto includes many early copies, from the 6th century A.H. / 12th century C.E. onwards. They cover a wide range of subjects. The catalogue gives detailed descriptions of 66 Arabic and 34 Persian works, arranged by subject. Author and title indexes provide easy access, and photographs of selected pages enhance the descriptions. The manuscripts were acquired individually over many decades.

Eleazar Birnbaum began studying Arabic in 1947 at the age of 17, later followed by Turkish and Persian, all at the University of London. He has been an Islamics librarian at the Universities of Durham (England) and Michigan. Since 1964 he has been Professor (now Emeritus) of Turkish Studies at the University of Toronto. Among his recent publications is a catalogue of his own collection of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts: Ottoman Turkish and Çaĝatay MSS in Canada. A Union Catalogue of the Four Collections (Brill, 2015).

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Catalogue

Arabic Manuscripts
Introduction to the Arabic Manuscripts

A Geography

B Language and Lexicography

C Literature: Poetry

D Literature: Prose

E Qurʾān

F Tafsīr

G Islām: Other (Ḥadīth, ʿAqāʾid, Fiqh, Fatwā, Eschatology, Prayer, etc.)

H Sufism

I Druze

J Ethics

K Encyclopedic; Sciences and Pseudosciences; Medicine; Mixed

L Ijāza

M Calligraphy

N Persian Philology

Persian Manuscripts
Introduction to the Persian Manuscripts

A History

B Literature

C Islam; Religion

D Ethics

E Language, Lexicography, and Prosody

F Encyclopedia

G Astrology

H Document

I Addendum: [Majmūʿa]

Bibliography and Sigla
Arabic Manuscripts: Author Index
Arabic Manuscripts: Title Index
Concordance of Arabic Manuscripts
Persian Manuscripts: Author Index
Persian Manuscripts: Title Index
Concordance of Persian Manuscripts

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Islamic Manuscripts and Books ; 18
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch; persisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-38821-4 / 9004388214
ISBN-13	978-90-04-38821-5 / 9789004388215
Zustand	Neuware