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The trans-Saharan book trade (Record no. 115802)

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fixed length control field 02993nam a2200445 a 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 011/.31096824
245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The trans-Saharan book trade
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of publisher Brill,
Year of publication 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xii, 422 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Library of the written word,
Series statement Library of the written word. The manuscript world ;
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note A historic geography of the trans-Saharan trade / Eric Ross -- A thirst for knowledge : Arabic literacy, writing paper, and Saharan bibliophiles in Southwestern Sahara / Ghislaine Lydon -- The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan / Terence Walz -- The historic "core curriculum" and the book market in Islamic West Africa / Bruce S. Hall and Charles C. Stewart -- The book and the nature of knowledge in Muslim Northern Nigeria, 1457-2007 / Murray Last -- Literary culture and Arabic manuscripts in 19th-century Ilorin / Stefan Reichmuth -- An overview of major manuscript libraries in Timbuktu / Abdel Kader Haidara -- Information and communication technologies for the preservation and valorization of manuscript collections in Morocco / Said Ennahid -- Coming to terms with tradition : manuscript conservation in contemporary Algeria / Judith Scheele -- Camel to kilobytes : preserving the cultural heritage of the trans-Saharan book trade / Graziano Kr�atli.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Manuscripts, Arabic
Topical Term Manuscripts
Topical Term Codicology
Topical Term Book industries and trade
Topical Term Islamic learning and scholarship
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kr�atli, Graziano.
Personal name Lydon, Ghislaine.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10476248

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