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Author Gacek, Adam.

Title The Arabic manuscript tradition : a glossary of technical terms and bibliography--supplement / by Adam Gacek
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
Series Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, The near and Middle East ; v. 95
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 95 Bd.
Contents Contents; Transliteration table; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One: GLOSSARY; Abbreviations; 1. Sources/References; 2. Technical terms in the glossary; Part Two: BIBLIOGRAPHY; I. GENERAL AND INTRODUCTORY STUDIES; 1. Bibliographies; 2. Periodicals; 3. Conference proceedings and composite works; 4. General studies and surveys; 5. Selected studies of one or more manuscripts; 6. Manuscript production and culture (wiräqah); 7. Libraries; 8. History of manuscripts (ownership statements, seal impressions, waqf-statements, etc.); 9. Popular culture in manuscripts; 10. Forgeries; 11. Terminology
12. Western and Hebrew manuscript studiesII. WRITING SURFACES, MATERIALS AND IMPLEMENTS; 1. General studies; 2. Papyrus; 3. Parchment; 4. Paper; 5. Inks, inkwells, pens and other writing accessories; III. TEXTBLOCK (QUIRES, SIGNATURES AND FOLIATION); IV. THE TEXT, ITS COMPOSITION AND ARRANGEMENT; 1. Types of compositions, their parts, etc; 2. Page lay-out (mise en page); 3. Colophon and scribal verses; 4. Dates, dating and numera
Summary "This work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition, both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries already found in the AMT, and recent publications on various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies arranged by subject."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Manuscripts, Arabic -- History -- Bibliography
Codicology -- Dictionaries
Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- English
Paleography, Arabic -- Bibliography
REFERENCE.
Arabic language
Codicology
Manuscripts, Arabic
Paleography, Arabic
Handschriftenkunde
Arabisch.
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Dictionaries
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008005700
ISBN 9789047432999
9047432991
1282398148
9781282398146
9786612398148
6612398140