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Author Contadini, Anna

Title A world of beasts : a thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' tradition / by Anna Contadini
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)
Contents Introduction: image and (con)text -- The manuscript -- Text and sources -- The frontispieces and other human figures -- The animals of the Na't -- Composition, Iconography and style -- Date and provance -- Patronage and milieu
Summary "The Kitāb Na't 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 illustrations, which make it a key witness to early thirteenth-century Arab painting. After a re-evaluation of previous approaches, emphasis is placed on relating image to text, on stylistic affiliations, and on the modalities of production, supported by technical analyses undertaken for the first time. In elucidating the particular context of this unique manuscript, the study contributes to our understanding of a critical period in the development of Middle Eastern painting and art."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Naʻt al-ḥayawān -- Illustrations
Naʻt al-ḥayawān fast
Subject 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.
Bestiaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Arab countries
Islamic countries
Genre/Form Illustrated works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004222656
9004222650
9004201009
9789004201002
Other Titles Thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Naʻt al-ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ tradition