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Lives of the Prophets, The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru's "Assembly of Chronicles".
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mohamad Reza Ghiasian
- Series:
- Studies in Persian Cultural History 16.
- Studies in Persian cultural history ; Volume 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World history--Early works to 1800.
- World history.
- Ḥāfiẓ Abrū, -1430. Majmaʻ al-tavārīkh--Criticism, Textual.
- Ḥāfiẓ Abrū.
- Ḥāfiẓ Abrū, -1430. Majmaʻ al-tavārīkh--Illustrations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 343 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-37722-0
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004377226 DOI
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