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Sacred script: muhaqqaq in Islamic calligraphy

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ISBN	1848854390 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781848854390 (hbk.)
Author	Mansour, Nassar
Title	Sacred script : muhaqqaq in Islamic calligraphy / Nassar Mansour ; edited and foreword by Mark Allen
Publisher	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011
Physical desc.	296 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Note	CBL illustrations throughout: Is 1431; Is 1448, ff.39b-40a; Is 1438, ff.109b-110a; Is 1417, ff.33b-34a; Is 1527, ff.3b-4a; Is 1435, ff.1b-2a and ff. 114b-115a; Is 1481, ff. 301b-302a and ff.308b-309a.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.
Contents	The seven scripts -- Muhaqqaq: the work of Ibn al Bawwab and Yaqut al-Musta'simi -- Muhaqqaq as a Mushaf script -- The artistic features of muhaqqaq -- Karahisari: his life and influence on the development of muhaqqaq and on the Ottoman school -- A muhaqqaq copybook -- Muhaqqaq compositions -- Muhaqqaq in architecture.
Subject	Qurʼan -- Manuscripts
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1417
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1435
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1438
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1448
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1481
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1527
	Islamic calligraphy
	Muslim calligraphers
Added name(s)	Allen, Mark 1950-

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