A world of beasts : a thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' tradition /

A world of beasts : a thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' tradition /

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 illustr...

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Main Author: Contadini, Anna.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2012.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.

Subjects:

Naʻt al-ḥayawān > Illustrations.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab.
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Arab countries.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Islamic countries.
Bestiaries > Arab countries.
ART / Techniques / Calligraphy.

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Call Number: ND3399.N38 C66 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.