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The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL II) - Hardcover
This, the second of the four-volume catalogue of the Qur'anic material in the Collection, covers the period from AD 1000 to 1400 and includes examples from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, India, Spain and North Africa. The 56 items presented here include a Qur'an written in gold in 12th-century Iraq; one of a small group of Qur'ans known to have been produced in Valencia in the same period; and what may be the earliest surviving Qur'an from India. Even more remarkable is a section from a 30-part Qur'an written by Yaqut al-Musta'simi, the greatest Islamic calligrapher of the later Middle Ages: other sections from the same Qur'an are in Istanbul and Dublin, but this is the only one to retain its original illumination. These important items are the subject of substantial new studies and other essays cover Qur'an production in Damascus and manuscript patronage in Shiraz under the Inju'ids and Muzaffarids. The detailed catalogue entries are complemented by multiple colour illustrations, and colophons and other significant documentation are reproduced with full translations.
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David James, Former Curator, Nasser D. Khalili Collection.
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`intelligently produced and sumptuously illustrated'
Weekend FT
'A massive 30-volume survey of the arts of Islam open with three opulent volumes on Qur'ans, The Abbasid Tradition, The Master Scribes and After Timur,intelligently produced and sumptuously illustrated.'
Susan Moore, Financial Times
Weekend FT
'A massive 30-volume survey of the arts of Islam open with three opulent volumes on Qur'ans, The Abbasid Tradition, The Master Scribes and After Timur,intelligently produced and sumptuously illustrated.'
Susan Moore, Financial Times
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- PublisherKha
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0197276016
- ISBN 13 9780197276013
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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The master scribes : Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, 2)
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ISBN 10: 0197276016
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. owner's plate. 240 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 36 cm. Issued in a slip case. Summary:The second of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans, this book includes a Qur'an that retains its original illumination by the greatest calligrapher of the Middle Ages, Yaqut al-Musta 'simi. Other masterpieces include a Qur'an written in gold from twelfth-century Iraq; the only twelfth-century Qur'an from Valencia; and a manuscript that is possibly the earliest Qur'an to survive from India. Seller Inventory # soas4to311
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