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Shahnama: the visual language of the Persian Book of Kings

Shahnama: the visual language of the Persian Book of Kings
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ISBN 0754633675
Title Shahnama : the visual language of the Persian Book of Kings / edited by Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher Aldershot : Ashgate, 2004
Physical desc. xiv, 184 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm.
Series VARIE occasional papers 2
Note CBL illustrations: p. 65-84 (Per 114)
Proceedings of a conference held in Edinburgh on 12-13 March 2001
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents New perspectives in Shahnama iconography / Robert Hillenbrand. -- Shahnama as text and Shahnama as image: a brief overview of recent studies, 1975-2000 / Marianna Shreve Simpson. -- The Great Mongol Shahnama in the Qajar period / Jonathan M. Bloom. -- Rewriting the history of the Great Mongol Shahnama / The St. Petersburg illustrated Shahnama of 733 Hijra (1333 AD) and the Injuid school of painting / Adel T. Adamova. -- Firdausi and more: a Timurid anthology of epic tales / Elaine Wright. -- The Kevorkian-Kraus-Khalili Shahnama: the history, codicology and illustrations of a sixteenth-century Shirazi manuscript / Tim Stanley. -- Characters out of context: the case of a bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Sylvia Auld. -- Bahram Gur woven with gold: a silk fragment in the Diocesan Museum of St. Afra in Augsburg and the modes of rendition of a popular theme / Avinoam Shalem. -- Faint echoes of past splendour - a group of brass plaques from 19th-century Qajar Iran / Ulrike al-Khamis and Godfrey Evans. -- Bandar-i Tahiri - a late outpost of the Shahnama / Jennifer M. Scarce. -- Evidence for grid layout in Persian manuscripts / M. Amin Mahdavi.
Person as subject Firdawsi -- Shahnamah -- Congresses
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 114
Shahnama
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic -- Congresses
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Congresses
Miniature painting, Iranian -- Congresses
Added name(s) Hillenbrand, Robert ed.
Wright, Elaine Julia
Added name(s) - Corporate Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh
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