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Cover 1 Half Title 3 Series Page 4 Title Page 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 List of Figures 10 Acknowledgements 20 Note on Transliteration and Translation 22 Abbreviations 24 Series Editor’s Foreword 26 Introduction A Book about Books 27 Chapter One Maghribī Round Scripts: A New Definition 39 Geography and chronology 39 Nature and fortune of a regional script 47 The long course of scholarship 52 General features of Maghribī scripts 61 Ifrīqī scripts and the Maghrib 72 Chapter Two Maghribī Round Scripts in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries 98 Book culture and production in Umayyad Iberia 98 Libraries and penmanship 99 Learning circles and endowment practices 103 Parchment and paper production 104 The earliest evidence of round scripts in al-Andalus 105 Where were the manuscripts copied? 109 Codicological remarks 119 Andalusī bookhands and casual scripts 124 The ‘Mozarab’ connection 131 The ‘Sigüenza Bifolio’ 134 The evidence of Arabic glosses 136 Chapter Three Maghribī Round Scripts in the Fifth/Eleventh Century 151 Book culture and production in the Ṭāʾifa kingdoms 151 The resilience of Cordova 154 Seville, Badajoz, Toledo 156 Almería, Granada, Murcia 157 Travelling scholars a

Author

Umberto Bongianino;

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