Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-25962-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 269 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Muqarnas, Supplements

This volume contains album prefaces in the original Persian version with English translation, miscellaneous documents relating to calligraphers and painters, and specimens of travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Islamic art history, Persian literature, Timurid and Safavid history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thackston, Wheeler

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Preface

ALBUMS
* Shah Tahmasp Album, IÜK F.1422, Preface by Shahqulï Khalifa Muhrdar

* Bahram Mirza Album, TSM H.2154, Preface by Dost-Muhammad

* Amir Husayn Beg Album, TSM H.2151, Preface by Mâlik Daylami

* Preface to an Album by Khwaja Abdullah Marwarid, TSM H.2156

* Amir Ghayb Beg Album, TSM H.2161, Preface by Mir Sayyid-Ahmad

An Ottoman Album, ÖNB Cod. Mixt. 313, Preface by Cenderecizade Mehmed

* Shah Isma'il II Album, TSM H.2138, Preface by Shamsuddin Muhammad Wasfi

* Preface to a Safavid Album, TSM H.2157, Copied by Muhammad-Muhsin

* Wali-Muhammad Khan Album, TSM H.2137, Preface Copied by Muhammad-Salih

Preface to a Mughal Album, MMA 55.121.10, Composed by Mir Ali ai-Husayni

* An Album Made by Kamaluddin Bihzad, Preface by Khwandamir

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Arzadasht, H.2153, fol. 98a

Miscellaneous Documents

Ghiyathuddin Naqqash, Report to Mirza Baysunghur on the Timurid Legation to the Ming Court at Peking

Kamaluddin Abdui-Razzaq Samarqandi, Mission to Calicut and Vijayanagar

Anonymous Synoptic Account of the Timurid House, TSM B.411, fol. 159a

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wheeler M. Thackston, (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974) is Professor of the Practice in Persian and other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University. He teaches Persian and Arabic, including Levantine Arabic. His research interests include Persian, Kurdish, Chagata, Turkish and Arabic language, literature, and art.