[en] Scholars of the Mamluk period were weighed down by a vast abun-dance of texts and had to develop strategies to cope with such data overload. In this article, a series of tools (lists, indexes, summaries, and notebooks) devised by those scholars to condense and cope with the information have been ana-lysed from various points of view. Several examples of these tools have been topologically detailed. The external features of the manuscripts containing them have then been considered before turning to their usefulness for the peo-ple who conceived them. Even though these tools were made primarily for per-sonal use, they proved useful to other scholars, who, in acquiring or copying them, avoided repeating the same task. As the manuscripts under scrutiny here are largely holographs, they were of some interest to bibliophiles as well.
Centre/Unité de recherche :
Transitions - Transitions (Département de recherches sur le Moyen Âge tardif & la première Modernité) - ULiège
Disciplines :
Etudes classiques & orientales
Auteur, co-auteur :
Bauden, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Transitions - Unité de recherches sur le Moyen Âge et la première Modernité
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
Data Overload and Information Management in the Mamluk Period (1250-1517)
Date de publication/diffusion :
2023
Titre de l'ouvrage principal :
Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes
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