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The look of the book: manuscript production in Shiraz, 1303-1452

The look of the book: manuscript production in Shiraz, 1303-1452
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ISBN 0295991917 (hbk.)
9780295991917 (hbk.)
Author Wright, Elaine Julia
Title The look of the book : manuscript production in Shiraz, 1303-1452 / [by] Elaine Wright
Publisher Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Seattle : University of Washington Press, Dublin : Chester Beatty Library, 2012
Physical desc. xx, 399 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Series Occasional papers (Freer Gallery of Art) 3
Note Revision of the author’s doctoral thesis, submitted to the Oriental Institute of Oxford University in 1997.
CBL illustrations throughout.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-387) and index.
Contents Illumination. The illumination and patronage of Injuid manuscripts -- Early Injuid illumination -- Il-Khanid illumination -- Late Injuid illumination -- The evidence of Injuid and Il-Khanid metalwork -- Issues of patronage -- The sahih of the vizier Qutbuddin Sulaymanshah -- A change in aesthetics: illuminated Muzaffarid manuscripts -- The illumination of the Fars Malik Khatun Qur'an -- The development of the Muzaffarid style -- Manuscripts of the late 1350s and 1360s -- The decoration of contemporary metalwork -- The impetus for change -- The blue-and-gold floral style following the demise of the Muzaffarids -- Illumination under the Jalayirids -- Iskandar Sultan in Shiraz and Isfahan -- The illuminated manuscripts of Iskandar Sultan -- Iskandar Sultan's role as a patron of manuscripts -- A time for change: from Ibrahim Sultan to the end of Timurid rule in Shiraz -- The emergence of a new illumination style -- The introduction of a new type of paper -- The illuminations of Ibrahim Sultan and Baysunghur -- Changes in the manuscript industry: production and patronage -- Illumination in the years following the demise of Timurid control of Shiraz -- Codicology. Textblock format -- The standard format -- The three-sided marginal column format -- The one-sided marginal column format -- Placement of the textblock on the folio -- The size and proportions of folios and textblocks -- Folio area -- Folio and textblock proportions: height to width ratios -- Paper production -- Paper of laid construction -- Paper of wove construction -- Flocculency of paper -- Paper color -- Paper thickness -- Sizing and burnishing -- 'Wove-like' paper in manuscripts of the period 839-48/1435-36 to 1444-45 -- Illustration. An overview of Shiraz styles -- The basic Shirazi mode of painting -- Injuid paintings -- Muzaffarid-style paintings -- Paintings of the early Timurid, pre-Iskandar era -- Paintings of Iskandar Sultan -- Paintings from the time of Ibrahim Sultan to 1452 -- Modes of illustration -- Ettinghausen's literary model for the categorization of Persian painting -- The case of Ibrahim Sultan's Shahnama -- The layout of the folio: the integration of text and image -- The Shahnama manuscripts of Baysunghur and Ibrahim Sultan -- Folio layout in other manuscripts of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries -- The selection of illustrations -- Calligraphy. The evolution of nasta'liq script -- Persian hanging scripts -- The distinguishing traits of naskh and nasta'liq -- The method of analysis -- The corpus of manuscripts analyzed -- Results of the script analysis -- Interpretation -- Supporting documentation -- An overview of the development of nasta'liq -- Bookbinding. Construction -- Decoration -- Binding decoration in the fourteenth century -- Binding decoration in the first decade of the fifteenth century -- Shiraz versus Herat: bindings from the time of Ibrahim Sultan and Baysunghur -- The tooled bindings of Shiraz -- A chronological overview. The origins of the classical Persian manuscript: changes of the late 1350s and 1360s -- The cultural and political milieu of fourteenth-century Shiraz -- Shiraz as center of innovation -- The period of change under Iskandar Sultan -- The decade of change following the death of Ibrahim Sultan -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. Textblock formats -- Shahnama translations -- The distribution of text illustrations in Shahnama manuscripts -- Script analysis tables for individual manuscripts -- Manuscripts and single folios cited.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 5282
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Manuscripts Iran -- Shīrāz
Manuscripts, Persian Iran -- Shīrāz -- History -- To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian Iran -- Shīrāz -- History -- To 1500
Miniature painting, Iranian Iran -- Shīrāz -- History -- To 1500
Calligraphy, Persian Iran -- Shīrāz -- History -- To 1500
Bookbinding Iran -- Shīrāz -- History -- To 1500
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