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The wonders of creation and the singularities of painting: a study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvīnī
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9780748683246 (hbk.)
0748683246 (hbk.)
Author
Carboni, Stefano
Title
The wonders of creation and the singularities of painting : a study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvīnī / Stefano Carboni
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015
Physical desc.
xix, [1], 428 p. ; col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Series
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Note
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of London, 1992) under the title: Wonders of creation and the singularities of Ilkhanid painting.
Bibliography etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-421) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Pt. 1: Al-Qazvīnī's illustrated text between scientific and narrative literature -- The illustrations of the London Qazvīnī -- General description -- General features -- Present condition of the illustrations -- Colours -- The vegetal foreground -- Selected illustrations from the London Qazvīnī -- North Jaziran/Southeast Anatolian evidence -- Narrative illustrations -- Distinctive animals -- Distinctive recurrent details -- The London Qazvīnī in relation to the Edinburgh al-Bīrunī -- A single illustration in the Diez Albums in Berlin -- The New York Bestiary -- The illustrations of the London Qazvīnī and related 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat manuscripts -- Analysis of the table of comparison -- Interpretation of the table of comparison -- Pt. 2: Description of the London Qazvīnī by folio -- Catalogue of the illustrations of the London Qazvīnī.
Person as subject
Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad -- 1208 or 9-1283 or 4 -- Aja'ib al-makhluqat
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British Library
Subject
London Qazvīnī -- Illustrations
British Library -- Manuscript -- Or. 14140
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ilkhanid
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800
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