Book as Microcosm: A Unique Hebrew Copy of Ibn Sina’s Canon
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic area specialist in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.) The book is bound in dark brown leather over wooden boards, its tooled surface rubbed smooth with age. Its envelope-style binding, common to works in the Muslim world, is highly unusual in the world of Hebrew …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section