Lives of the Prophets, The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru's “Assembly of Chronicles“.

Mohamad Reza Ghiasian
Lives of the Prophets,
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789004377226 (electronic book)
9789004377219 (print)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0687
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Foreword / Charles Melville -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- The Political and Cultural Setting -- Book Production under Shahrukh -- Majmaʿ al-tawarikh and Its Surviving Illustrated Copies -- Stylistic Analysis -- Catalogue: The Illustrations of the Prophets -- Conclusion -- Translation of the Illustrated Episodes of the Lives of the Prophets Based on Hazine 1653 -- Headings and Illustrations in Hazine 1653 -- Location of Paintings so Far Identified as Later Additions in the Dispersed Manuscript (Second Style) -- Location of Paintings so Far Identified as Later Additions in the Dispersed Manuscript (Third Style) -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
In Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles” Mohamad Reza Ghiasian analyses two extant copies of the Majmaʿ al-tawarikh produced for the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (r. 1405–1447). The first manuscript is kept in Topkapı Palace and the second is widely dispersed. Codicological analysis of these manuscripts not only allows a better understanding of Hafiz-i Abru’s contributions to rewriting earlier history, but has served to identify the existence of a previously unrecognised copy of the Jamiʿ al-tawarikh produced at Rashid al-Din’s scriptorium. Through a meticulous close reading of both text and image, Mohamad Reza Ghiasian convincingly proves that numerous paintings of the dispersed manuscript were painted over the text before its dispersal in the early twentieth century.
Konu
World history __ Early works to 1800.