RT Book
T1 The history of the book in the Middle East
T2 The history of the book in the East / ed. by Peter Kornicki
A2 Roper, Geoffrey
LA English
PP Farnham u.a.
PB Ashgate
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/729637778
AB This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The flourishing and long-lived manuscript tradition is discussed in its various aspects - social and economic as well as technical and aesthetic. The very early but abortive introduction of printing - long before Gutenberg - and the eventual, belated acceptance of the printed book and the development of print culture are explored in further groups of papers. Cultural, aesthetic, technological, religious, social, political and economic factors are all considered throughout the volume. Although the articles reflect the predominance in the area of Muslim books - Arabic, Persian and Turkish - the Hebrew, Syriac and Armenian contributions are also discussed. The editor's introduction provides a survey of the field from the origins of writing to the modern literary and intellectual revivals. -- from publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN Z8.O75
SN 1409433102
SN 9781409433101
K1 Books : Middle East : History
K1 Printing : Middle East : History