| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, Near and Middle East ;
v. 82
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 82. Bd.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and indexes. |
| Contents |
The Historico-Religious Context of Arabic Block Printing -- The (Re)Discovery of Arabic Block Printing -- Calligraphy and the Issue of Dating the Arabic Block Prints -- Block Printed Amulets in European Libraries and Museums -- Key to Transcriptions of Arabic Texts -- Agyptologisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin -- Cambridge University Library Michaelides Collection -- Cambridge University Library Taylor-Schechter Geniza Collection -- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland -- The Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany -- Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg Institut fur Papyrologie -- John Rylands Library, University of Manchester -- Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Papyrussammlung -- Bibliotheque Nationale Universitaire De Strasbourg -- Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge -- Block Printed Amulets in Libraries and Museums in the United States -- Columbia University Library Papyrus Collection -- Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, a Gift of Camilla Chandler Frost -- Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Islamic Art, New York, New York -- Scheide Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University -- List of Locations and Accesstion Numbers for Known Tarshes in Europe and the United States -- List of Works Consulted -- Index to Qur'anic Chapters (Suras) and Verses (Ayat) Appearing in the Texts of the Amulets -- Plates -- List of Illustrations. |
| Summary |
This is the first comprehensive examination of block printing in the medieval Islamic world. Examples of Arabic block prints have been preserved in various collections across the globe, but they have long been treated as curiosities and oddities. Here, for the first time, a large representative corpus of block prints is examined and illustrated. The first section of the book places Arabic block printing in historical perspective and recounts their rediscovery by modern day scholars. The second section illustrates fifty-five examples of medieval Arabic block printed amulets, provides detailed technical descriptions of each, presents transcriptions of their texts into legible Arabic and offers translations of those texts into English. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Amulets (Islam)
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Amulets (Islam) |
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Block printing -- Islamic Empire.
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Block printing. |
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Islamic Empire. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schaefer, Karl R. Enigmatic charms. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 9004147896 9789004147898 (DLC) 2006049061 (OCoLC)70335449 |
| ISBN |
9789047408529 (electronic book) |
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9047408527 (electronic book) |
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9004147896 (alkaline paper) |
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9789004147898 |
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