Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art : A Codicological Study of Iranian and Turkic Illuminated Book Fragments from 8th-11th Century East Central Asia /

Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art : A Codicological Study of Iranian and Turkic Illuminated Book Fragments from 8th-11th Century East Central Asia /

Mediaeval Manichean Book Art focuses on a corpus of c. one hundred fragments of exquisitely illuminated manuscripts that were produced under the patronage of the Turkic-speaking Uygurs in the Turfan region of East Central Asia between the 8th and 11th centuries CE, and used in service of the local M...

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Main Author: Gulácsi, Zsuzsanna (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2005.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 57.

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manichaean > Asia, Central.
Manichaean illumination of books and manuscripts > Asia, Central.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Asia, Central.

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Call Number: ND2932

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • A Codicological Approach to a Unique Group of Objects
  • Identifying the Corpus of Manichaean Book Art
  • Dating the Remains: Scientific, Textual, and Artistic Evidence
  • Codicological Characteristics: Artisanship of Bookmakers and Scribes in Manichaean Turfan
  • The Work of the Illuminator: The Four Basic Painting Styles of Turfan Manichaean Book Illumination
  • Patterns of Page Arrangement: Integration of Text and Image
  • The Written and the Painted Message: Contextual Cohesion of Text and Image
  • Postscript
  • Bibliography
  • Index.