| ISBN |
9789004157224 (hbk.) |
| 9004157224 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Arab painting : text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts / edited by Anna Contadini |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 |
| Physical desc. |
xi, 272 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies The Near and Middle East 90 |
| Note |
Based on papers presented at an international conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 17-18 September 2004 |
| CBL illustrations: p. 153 (Ar 3425, f. 153r); p. [259] (Ar 4921, f. 8r) |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Foreword / Craig Clunas. -- Introduction (and acknowledgements) / Anna Contadini. -- The manuscript as a whole / Anna Contadini. -- What does 'Arab painting' mean? / Oleg Grabar. -- Art in the name of science: the Kitāb al-diryāq in text and image / Jaclynne J. Kerner. -- Text and illustrations. Dioscorides and the illustrated herbal in the Arab tradition / Michael J. Rogers. -- Elusive giraffes: Ibn Abi l-Hawafir's Bada'i' al-akwan and other animal books / Remke Kruk. -- Mapping the mnemonic: a late thirteenth-century copy of al-Ṣūfī's Book of the constellations / Moya Carey. -- From Iraq to Fars: tracking cultural transformations in the 1322 Qazwīnī ʻAjāʾib manuscript / Persis Berlekamp. -- The earliest Islamic illustrated manuscript, the Maqamat and a graveyard at Ṣuḥār, Oman / Geoffrey R. D. King. -- Love localized and science from afar: 'Arab painting', Iberian courtly culture, and the Ḥadīth Bayād wa Riyād (Vat. Ar. Ris. 368) / Cynthia Robinson. -- The Schefer Ḥarīrī: a study in Islamic frontispiece design / Robert Hillenbrand. -- The uses of captions in medieval literary Arabic manuscripts / Bernard O'Kane. -- Anatomical illustration in Arabic manuscripts / Emilie Savage-Smith. -- The 'translation' of diagrams and illustrations from Arabic into Latin / Charles Burnett. |
| Corporate name |
University of London -- School of Oriental and African Studies -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 3425 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4921 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4352 |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic -- Arab countries |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Arab countries |
| Manuscripts, Arabic |
| Added name(s) |
Contadini, Anna ed. |
| Series Added Entry |
Handbuch der Orientalistik ; Erste Abteilung ; Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 90 |
