Tracing Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Autograph Corpus, with Emphasis on the 19th–20th Centuries

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Torsten Wollina
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Muḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn is today fairly well known as a historian of Damascus. Yet, his numerous writings cover many more areas of contemporaneous knowledge production and some of those might have been more impactful for his reputation as a scholar. One area that has so far not received much attention is the scrutiny Ibn Ṭūlūn put into the organisation of knowledge within his library, his corpus, and even individual manuscripts. This article attempts one step at closing this lacuna by addressing the contents statements with which Ibn Ṭūlūn prefaced all his autograph manuscripts. It also proposes a methodology for utilising them as sources for manuscript history. Based on four primary case studies, the chapter uses a triad of extraction, recompilation, and reconstruction of manuscripts to assess the current state of multiple-text manuscripts vis-a-vis their original compilations. All four manuscripts ended up in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin by the 1930s. The chapter makes use of a wide array of sources within and without these manuscripts to elucidate their historical trajectories from Ibn Ṭūlūn’s endowed library until their acquisition by Chester Beatty. Specific attention will be paid to their peregrinations in the 19th and early-20th centuries. In particular, early 20th-century photographic reproductions of those manuscripts can shed light on the most recent recompilations and reconstructions of these manuscripts. No survey on the emergence of contents statements in the Arabic manuscript tradition has yet been made. A focus on one author’s autograph corpus thus seems a more promising approach which generates verifiable results. Thus, it appears that Ibn Ṭūlūn’s contents statements were already standardised and would even be expanded by at least one (near-)contemporary.
追踪IbnṬ以19世纪至20世纪为重点的鲁的自动文集
Muḥammad IbnṬ如今,作为大马士革的历史学家,鲁已经相当出名了。然而,他的众多著作涵盖了同时代知识生产的更多领域,其中一些可能对他作为学者的声誉更有影响。到目前为止,一个没有受到太多关注的领域是对伊本的审查Ṭ在他的图书馆、文集,甚至个人手稿中,鲁投入了知识的组织。本文试图通过解决Ibn的内容声明来填补这一空白Ṭ鲁为他所有的亲笔签名手稿作序。它还提出了一种利用它们作为手稿历史来源的方法。在四个主要案例研究的基础上,本章使用手稿的提取、重新编译和重建三重方法来评估多个文本手稿相对于原始汇编的现状。到20世纪30年代,这四份手稿都被存放在都柏林的切斯特贝蒂图书馆。本章利用了这些手稿内外的广泛来源,阐明了它们从伊本开始的历史轨迹Ṭ在被切斯特·比蒂收购之前,他们一直是鲁恩的图书馆。将特别关注他们在19世纪和20世纪初的迁徙。特别是,20世纪初这些手稿的摄影复制品可以揭示这些手稿最近的重新编译和重建。尚未对阿拉伯手稿传统中内容陈述的出现进行调查。因此,关注一位作者的签名语料库似乎是一种更有前景的方法,可以产生可验证的结果。因此,看来伊本Ṭ鲁的内容陈述已经标准化,甚至会被至少一个(近)当代人扩展。
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Journal of Islamic Manuscripts
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.
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