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Lapis and gold: exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an
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1912168049 (hbk.)
9781912168040 (hbk.)
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Wright, Elaine Julia
Title
Lapis and gold : exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an / Elaine Wright
Publisher
London : Chester Beatty Library in association with Ad Ilissvm, 2018
Physical desc.
xv, 320 pages ; color illustrations ; 31 cm.
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"Produced by Paul Holberton Publishing, London"--t.p. verso.
CBL illustrations of Is 1558 throughout.
Bibliography etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part . Introducing the manuscript. The manuscript in brief -- A manuscript in need of repair -- How many Ruzbihans? -- The historical and art historical context in brief -- Part 2. Writing the words of God. The writing surface -- The layout and decoration of the text -- Edge notes and the copying of the text -- Types of script -- Muhaqqaq -- Thulth -- Naskh -- Display scripts -- The spacing of the text: problems and solutions -- Omissions and the irregular placement of text -- Omissions of text from lines of naskh -- The placement of letters in vertical side panels -- Omissions of text from lines of muhaqqaq and thulth -- Omissions of text in earlier Qur'an manuscripts -- Errors and corrections -- The calligrapher -- Ruzbihan's colophon -- Ruzbihan's name -- Part 3: Reading and reciting the words of God. Variant readings of the Qur'an: hafs and shu'ba -- Waqf and ibtida (pausing and starting) -- Divisions of the text -- Verse markers: a. Small-scale script (naskh) markers; b. Large-scale script (muhaqqaq-thulth) markers -- Five- and ten-verse marginal devices -- Juz', nisf al-juz' and hizb -- Sajda -- Part 4: Decorating the words of God I. Beginning, middle and end illuminations -- The beginning -- The middle -- The end, as it is today -- The end, as it was in the sixteenth century -- Khatm prayers and falnamas in other sixteenth-century Qur'ans -- Vertical side panels -- Vertical side panels with multi-coloured blossoms -- Vertical side panels with 'stencilled-type' blossoms -- Sura headings and other related panels -- Standard gold-ground headings -- Groups of headings based on types of cartouche: a. Cartouches derived from the cloud collar; b. Cartouches with concavely curved ends -- c. Simple, lobed cartouches -- d. Other cartouche types -- A change in aesthetic -- Script decoration -- Vertical side panels -- Sura headings -- Pigments and palette -- The layout of the openings -- Part 5: Decorating the word of God II. Frames -- Text area frames -- Vertical side panel frames -- Sura heading frames -- Frames of the beginning, middle and end illuminations -- Frames of major decorative elements -- Rays -- Individual motifs -- Blossoms, buds and leaves: a. The lotus and other multi-coloured blossoms -- b. The lotus: an overview of sixteenth-century Shiraz types -- c. The lotus and other monochrome, stencilled-type blossoms -- Palmettes -- Cloud bands -- Squiggles and eyes -- The manipulation of gold -- Investigating the palette of the Ruzbihan Qur'an / Kristine Rose Beers -- The manuscript's binding -- The original, sixteenth-century binding -- The nineteenth-century binding -- Part 6: Concluding remarks. Situating the Ruzbihan Qur'an -- From Shiraz to Dublin -- Part 7: Appendices. Dimensions and other codicological details of CBL Is 1558 -- Manuscripts with colophons signed by the calligrapher Ruzbihan Muhammad al-Tab'i al-Shirazi -- Sixteenth-century Qur'ans and other manuscripts relevant to the study of Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an (CBL Is 1558) -- The Arabic alphabet and numerals -- Waqf (recitation) signs used in the Ruzbihan Qur'an -- Material analysis of the Ruzbihan Qur'an: table of analytical findings -- Illuminated 'lookalikes': CBL Is 1558 and a shamsa and frontispiece in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Manuscripts with illuminations signed by or attributed to an individual named Ruzbihan -- Concordance of manuscript and folio numbers with figure, plate and page numbers.
Person as subject
Ruzbihan Muhammad al-Tab'i al-Shirazi
Subject
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1558
Qur'an -- Manuscripts
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Iran -- Shīrāz
Islamic calligraphy -- Iran -- Shīrāz
Calligraphy, Persian -- Iran -- Shīrāz
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