The Lives and Afterlives of the Library of the Maronite Physician Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb (c. 1702–1775) from Aleppo

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Pub Date : 2018-10-25 DOI:10.1163/1878464X-00902006

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Abstract

In eighteenth-century Aleppo, books acquired an unprecedented significance among Aleppo’s Christians, against the background of an expanding “culture of the book”. This paper attempts to reconstruct the library of the Maronite physician Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb (c. 1702–1775), based on ownership statements in manuscripts purchased by the German scholar and Oriental traveller Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1767–1811) in Aleppo, presently preserved in Gotha’s Research Library. Proceeding from an assessment of the ownership statements and a thematic analysis of the library, the paper will address the implications for our understanding of book ownership in the social and intellectual milieu of the owner. It will be argued that owning books was a facet of an intensifying and active—not passive—preoccupation with literature among Christians.

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马龙派医生图书馆的前世今生Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb(约1702-1775)，来自阿勒颇

在18世纪的阿勒颇，在“书文化”不断扩大的背景下，书籍在阿勒颇的基督徒中获得了前所未有的意义。本文试图重建马龙派医生的图书馆Ḥ安-Ṭabīb（约1702-1775年），基于德国学者和东方旅行家Ulrich Jasper Seetzen（1767-1811年）在阿勒颇购买的手稿中的所有权声明，目前保存在哥达研究图书馆。从对所有权声明的评估和对图书馆的主题分析出发，本文将探讨在所有者的社会和知识环境中对我们理解图书所有权的影响。有人会说，拥有书籍是基督徒对文学日益强烈和积极（而非被动）关注的一个方面。

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Journal of Islamic Manuscripts HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts (JIM) explores the crucial importance of the handwritten book in the Muslim world. It is concerned with the written transmission of knowledge, the numerous varieties of Islamic book culture and the materials and techniques of bookmaking, namely codicology. It also considers activities related to the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections, including cataloguing, conservation and digitization. It is the Journal’s ambition to provide students and scholars, librarians and collectors – in short, everyone who is interested in Islamic manuscripts – with a professional journal and functional platform of their own. It welcomes contributions in English, French and Arabic on codicology, textual studies, manuscript collections and collection care and management. Papers will be peer-reviewed to maintain a high scholarly level. The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts is published on behalf of the Islamic Manuscript Association Limited, an international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Islamic manuscripts and supporting those who work with them.