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Studies in the Islamic arts of the book

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ISBN	1904597491 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781904597490 (hbk.)
Author	Hillenbrand, Robert
Title	Studies in the Islamic arts of the book / Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher	London : Pindar Press, 2012
Physical desc.	v, 556, p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Note	Collection of author's essays that originally appeared in other works (see p. [555]-556).
Note	References to, and images of, CBL Persian MSS throughout.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The uses of space in Timurid painting -- The iconography of the Shah-nama-yi Shahi -- The Iskandar cycle in the great Mongol Sahnama -- Images of Muhammad in al-Biruni's Chronology of ancient nations -- The paintings of Rashid al-Din's 'Universal history' at Edinburgh -- Mamluk and Ilkhanid bestiaries: convention and experiment -- The Qur'an illuminated -- The relationship between book painting and luxury ceramics in 13th-century Iran -- The message of misfortune: words and images in Sa'di's Gulistan -- Literature and the visual arts -- New perspectives in Shahnama iconography -- Erudition exalted: the double frontispiece to the Epistles of the Sincere Brethren -- The Shahnama and the Persian illustrated book -- Islamic bookbinding -- The Schefer Hariri: a study in Islamic frontispiece design.
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 104
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 111
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 114
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 119
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	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 144
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 163
	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 214
	Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
	Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
	Manuscripts, Persian
	Islamic bookbinding

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