Paper before print : the history and impact of paper in the Islamic world /
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Yale University Press,
c2001.
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Call Number: TS1091 .B56
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| 100 | 1 | |a Bloom, Jonathan |q (Jonathan M.) | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Paper before print : |b the history and impact of paper in the Islamic world / |c Jonathan M. Bloom. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New Haven : |b Yale University Press, |c c2001. | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 270 p. : |b ill. (some col.), col. maps ; |c 28 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. The invention of paper -- Clay tablets and papyrus rolls -- Wooden tablets and parchment codices -- Bamboo strips and silk cloth -- The invention of paper -- The diffusion of paper -- The introduction of paper in the Islamic lands -- 2. The spread of papermaking across the Islamic lands -- Iraq -- Syria -- Iran and Central Asia -- Egypt -- The Maghrib (North Africa and Spain) -- 3. Paper and books -- The Koran and oral culture -- Written Arabic -- An explosion of books -- Collections and libraries -- A culture of writing -- ch. 4. Paper and systems of notation -- Mathematics -- Commerce -- Cartography -- Music, genealogy, and battle plans -- 5. Paper and the visual arts -- Before the thirteenth century -- From the thirteenth century -- 6. The transfer of paper and papermaking to Christian Europe -- Byzantium -- Spain -- Italy -- Europe north of the Alps -- 7. Paper after print. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Paper -- Middle East -- History. | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
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