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Islamic Art

Studies in Persian Art
Vol II

by B. W. Robinson

30 x 24cm 286pp. 345 illus.
£150.00
Publication: 1993
ISBN 0 907132 44 8
Buckram Bound

See also:
Vol I

This second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth century onwards.

Contents

Preface
'Zenith of his Time': the Painter Pir Ahmad Baghshimali
Bihzad and his School: the Materials
Siyah Qalam
Painter-llluminators of 16th Century Shiraz
Muhammadi and the Khurasan Style
Ali Asghar, Court Painter
The Earliest Illustrated Manuscript of Nizami?
Two Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Marquess of Bute, I. Two Mathnawis
Two Illustrated Manuscripts in the Malek Library, Tehran. I. Anthology
A Persian Battle-Piece
Prince Baysunghur and the Fables of Bidpai
Prince Baysunghur's Nizami: A Speculation
Unpublished Paintings from a 15th-Century Book of Kings
The Shahnama of Muhammad Juki, RAS MS 239
The Dunimarle Shahnama: A Timurid Manuscript from Mazandaran
The Tehran Manuscript of Kalila wa Dimna: A Reconsideration
The Durham Gulistan: an Unpublished Timurid Manuscript
RAS MS 178: an unrecorded Persian Painter
The John Rylands Layla wa Majnoun and the Bodleian Nawa'i of 1485: a Royal Timurid Manuscript
'A Magnificent MS': the British Library Shahnama of 1486
Origin and Date of Three Famous Shah Nameh Illustrations
Rustam in Battle: A Persian Masterpiece
An Unpublished Manuscript of the Gulistan of Sa'di
Isma'il II's Copy of the Shahnama
Two Manuscripts of the Shahnama in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. I. Holmes 150
Two Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Marquess of Bute. II. Anwar i Suhayli of 1593
A Lost Persian Miniature
Two Manuscripts of the Shahnama in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. II. Holmes 151
The Shahnameh Manuscript Cochran 4 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Index