UID:
almahu_9949700994602882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)
ISBN:
9789004222656
Series Statement:
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.
Content:
The Kitāb Naʿt al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relationships of its illustrations, which make it a key witness to early thirteenth-century Arab painting. After a re-evaluation of previous approaches, emphasis is placed on relating image to text, on stylistic affiliations, and on the modalities of production, supported by technical analyses undertaken for the first time. In elucidating the particular context of this unique manuscript, the study contributes to our understanding of a critical period in the development of Middle Eastern painting and art.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- I Introduction: Image and (Con)text -- II The Manuscript -- III Text and Sources -- IV The Frontispieces and Other Human Figures -- V The Animals of the Naʿt -- VI Composition, Iconography and Style -- VII Date and Provenance -- VIII Patronage and Milieu -- Appendix One Analyses of Colours, Ink and Gold -- Appendix Two List of Illustrations -- Appendix Three Selected List of Illuminated and Illustrated Manuscripts Cited -- Colour Plates Catalogue of the Paintings of the Kitāb Naʿt al-Ḥayawān -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2012, ISBN 9789004201002
Language:
English
