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A COMPENDIUM OF CHRONICLES: Rashid al-Din's Illustrated History of the World (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XXVII)

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A COMPENDIUM OF CHRONICLES: Rashid al-Din's Illustrated History of the World (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XXVII) (Hardcover)

by Sheila S. Blair (Author)

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This latest volume in the series presents one of the finest medieval illustrated manuscripts in the world, restored and fully illustrated in color for the first time. Including detailed commentary on this fourteenth-century fragment, the book provides fascinating insights into pre-Mongol painting.

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Sheila Blair is Co-editor, Dictionary of Western Art (Western and Central Asia section)

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Hardcover: 126 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019727627X
ISBN-13: 978-0197276273
Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 10.7 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,066,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Nasser D. Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands. Among its holdings of manuscripts is a fragmentary copy in Arabic of the Jami al-Tawarikh or Universal History, one of the greatest illustrated medieval manuscripts to have survived from either East or West. Written by the historian and vizier to the Ilkhanid court, Rashid al-Din, and copied in Tabriz between 1310 and 1315 by the author's own calligraphers and illustrators, the manuscript's importance as the first world history was quickly recognized. Sheila Blair reconstructs the often complex history of its ownership, explains its seminal role in the evolution of the illustrated Persian book, and challenges the belief of previous scholars that the Nour fragment and that in the Library of the University of Edinburgh are parts of different manuscripts. Her study of the manuscript's text and miniatures - accompanied by numerous colour details and duotone illustrations of comparative material - provides fascinating insights into the state of pre-Mongol painting and the working practices of a Persian atelier over six hundred years ago

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