Arabic manuscripts; a vademecum for readers.

9789004170360

Arabic manuscripts; a vademecum for readers.

Gacek, Adam.

BRILL

2009

338 pages

$179.00

Hardcover

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, v.98

Z115

Gacek (Arabic manuscript studies, McGill U., Montreal) provides students and fellow scholars with practical information for studying Arabic manuscripts in alphabetically arranged entries similar to an encyclopedia. A sampling of topics turns up birth and death statements, colophon, letterforms or allographs, primitive codicology and palaeography, quire, scribal etiquette, and vignette. Five appendices support the main entries, on abbreviations encountered, major Arabic letterforms, Qur'anic suras, and describing the manuscript. Additional charts set out dating frameworks.

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