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Title The arts of ornamental geometry : a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking figures = Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r) : a volume commemorating Alpay Özdural / edited by Gülru Necipoğlu ; with contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, Alpay Özdural, and Wheeler M. Thackston
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (374 pages)
Series Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture : supplements to Muqarnas ; volume XIII
Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture.
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences / Gulru Necipoglu -- ch. 2 Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources / Elaheh Kheirandish -- ch. 3 Mathematical Classification of the Contents of an Anonymous Persian Compendium on Decorative Patterns / Jan P. Hogendijk -- ch. 4 Preliminaries / Alpay Ozdural -- TRANSLATION, TRANSCRIPTION, AND DRAWINGS -- English translation by Alpay Ozdural of Fi tadakhul al-ashkal al-mutashabiha aw al-mutawafiqa {On Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures), edited and revised by Wheeler M. Thackston, with contributions by the other authors; accompanied by Wheeler M. Thackston's transcription of the Persian text and Alpay Ozdural's drawings, with commentaries by Gulru Necipoglu (based on "Analyses," the second chapter in Alpay Ozdural's unpublished [ect.] -- FACSIMILE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Text in English, translated from the Persian; with fascimilie of manuscript in the Persian
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2017)
Subject Bibliothèque nationale de France.
SUBJECT Bibliothèque nationale de France fast
Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015071474
Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa fast
Subject Generation of geometric forms -- Early works to 1800
Geometry in art -- Early works to 1800
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Early works to 1800
Shapes -- Design -- Art -- Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian -- France -- Paris -- Facsimiles
ART -- Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Folkcrafts.
Generation of geometric forms
Geometry in art
Manuscripts, Persian
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)
France -- Paris
Genre/Form Electronic books
Festschriften
Art
Early works
Facsimiles
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Özdural, Alpay, honouree
Necipoğlu, Gülru, editor
Thackston, W. M. (Wheeler McIntosh), 1944- translator, editor.
Necipoğlu, Gülru. Ornamental geometries
Hogendijk, J. P. Mathematical classification of the contents of an anonymous Persian compendium on decorative patterns
Kheirandish, Elaheh. Early tradition in practical geometry
Özdural, Alpay. Interlocks of similar or complementary figures. Selections
LC no. 2015049379
ISBN 9789004315204
9004315209
OTHER TI Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015071474
Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa. English