Enigmatic charms : medieval Arabic block printed amulets in American and European libraries and museums /

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 corp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schaefer, Karl R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 82. Bd.
Temas:
Amulets (Islam)
Block printing > Islamic Empire.
Amulettes > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Impression sur cliché > Empire islamique.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Occultism.
Block printing.
Amuletten.
Bibliotheekcollecties.
Arabisch.
Islamic Empire.
Verenigde Staten.
Europa (geografie)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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