| ISBN |
0934686041 (pbk.) |
| 9780934686044 (pbk.) |
| Author |
Farhad, Massumeh |
| Title |
Falnama : the book of omens / [by] Massumeh Farhad and Serpil Bağcı ; with contributions by Maria Mavroudi, Kathryn Babayan, Cornell H. Fleischer, Julia Bailey, Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., and Sergei Tourkin |
| Publisher |
Washington, DC : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2009 |
| Physical desc. |
346 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 32 cm. |
| Note |
"Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Falnama: The Book of Omens, October 24, 2009-January 24, 2010, organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution" -- T.p. verso. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 21 & 86-[87] ( Is 1548, ff. 251a-252b); p. [121] (Per 395.2); p. [152] (Per 395.1); p. [205] (T 414, f. 68b); p. [207] (T 414, f. 61b). |
| References to CBL Falnamah |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-340) and index |
| Contents |
The art of bibliomancy / Serpil Bağcı and Massumeh Farhad -- The Falnama in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Massumeh Farhad and Serpil Bağcı -- The manuscripts: The dispersed Falnama; The Topkapı Persian Falnama (TSM H.1702); The Dresden Falnama (E445); The Falnama of Ahmed I (TSM H.1703) / Massumeh Farhad and Serpil Bağcı -- Exhibition catalogue: Word as protection; Abrahamic traditions; Idolatry; Sages, heroes, and villains; The zodiac; The hereafter; Beyond the Falnama; Other folios from the dispersed Falnama -- Islamic divination in the context of its 'Eastern' and 'Western' counterparts / Maria Mavroudi -- Ancient wisdom and new sciences: prophecies at the Ottoman court in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Cornell H. Fleischer -- The cosmological order of things in early modern Safavid Iran / Kathryn Babayan -- Appendix A: reproductions and translations of the dispersed Falnama, H.1702 and H.1703 / translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr. and Sergei Tourkin -- Appendix B: comparative tables of omens. |
| Corporate name |
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) -- Exhibitions |
| Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1548 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 395 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 414 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Exhibitions |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Safavid -- Exhibitions |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman -- Exhibitions |
| Falnamas -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Bağcı, Serpil |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) |
| Freer Gallery of Art |
