18 novembre 2018
Torsten Wollina, « New Publication on the transmission of Ibn Tulun manuscripts », Damascus Anecdotes, ID : 10670/1.5ye9rl
The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts has just published its newest iteration, a special issue on manuscript notes. The editor Boris Liebrenz is well-known as an authority on this "marginal" topic. My contribution looks in particular at four manuscripts today held at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and traces their historical trajectories from Ibn Ṭūlūn's original book endowment until their acquisition by Chester Beatty. As has been mentioned before on this blog, Ibn Ṭūlūn's multiple-text ma...