TREATISE “ON THE PLACES AND STATE OF THE LAND OF JERUSALEM” (ED. GEORG MARTIN THOMAS) IN THE LIBRARY COLLECTION OF THE IMPERIAL ORTHODOX PALESTINIAN SOCIETY
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Th e article is part of a preliminary report of the ongoing research project that deals with the library of the former Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society. Th is library is now part of the library of the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg. Th e team of scholars is now studying this library in order to reconstruct the aims and analytical outlook of the IOPS at the peak of its work. Th e author suggests that it is appropriate to accept the wider approach to the description of fulns and illustrates this with an example of an extended description of one of the off -prints, namely Tractatus de locis et statu sancte terre ierosolimitane, published by Georg Martin Th omas in 1865. Th e article gives an outline of G. M. Th omas’ scholarly career, the particularities of the publication, and the context of Tractatus. Th e method and scope of its author is described as ‘projective ethnography’ (following B. Z. Kedar). It is to be noted that the treatise is one of the earliest sources of the Assassin legend in Europe. Refs 15.
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Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, library studies, Holy Land studies, assassins, projective ethnography
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