Arab painting: text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts
edited by Anna Contadini
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
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- Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Craig Clunas
- Introduction (and Acknowledgements) / Anna Contadini
- Sect. 1. Theoretical Issues
- The Manuscript as a Whole / Anna Contadini
- What does 'Arab Painting' Mean? / Oleg Graber
- Sect. 2. Scientific Manuscripts
- Art in the Name of Science: The Kitab al-Diryaq 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 Badai al-Akwan and Other Animal Books / Remke Kruk
- Mapping the Mnemonic: A Late Thirteenth-Century Copy of al-Sufi's Book of the Constellations / Moya Carey
- From Iraq to Fars: Tracking Cultural Transformations in the 1322 Qazwini Ajaib Manuscript / Persis Berlekamp
- Sect. 3. Literary Manuscripts
- The Earliest Islamic Illustrated Manuscript, the Maqamat and a Graveyard at Suhar, Oman / Geoffrey R. D. King
- Love Localized and Science from Afar: 'Arab Painting', Iberian Courtly Culture, and the Hadith Bayad wa Riyad (Vat. Ar. Ris. 368) / Cynthia Robinson
- The Schefer Hariri: A Study in Islamic Frontispiece Design / Robert Hillenbrand
- The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts / Bernard O'Kane
- Sect. 4. The European Connection
- Anatomical Illustration in Arabic Manuscripts / Emilie Savage-Smith
- The 'Translation' of Diagrams and Illustrations from Arabic into Latin / Charles Burnett.
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- Languages:
- English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-178) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- ND2955 .A73 2007
- ISBNs:
- 9789004157224
9004157220 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2007037029
- OCLC Numbers:
- 166382492