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The Topkap Saray Museum. The Albums and illustrated manuscripts / translated, expanded, and edited by J.M. Rogers from the original Turkish by Filiz Çagman and Zeren Tannd ; with 181 illustrations on colour.

Contributor(s): Rogers, J. M | Çağman, Filiz | Tanındı, Zeren | Çağman, Filiz. Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. İslâm minyatürleri | Topkapı Sarayı MüzesiMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Turkish Publication details: London : Thames and Hudson, 1986. Description: 280 p., [139] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cmISBN: 0500013993Other title: Albums and illustrated manuscriptsSubject(s): Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi -- Catalogs | Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs | Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Catalogs | Islamic miniature painting -- Catalogs | Miniature painting -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Catalogs | Islamic miniature painting -- CatalogsGenre/Form: CatalogsDDC classification: 745.6/7/091767107409563 LOC classification: ND2955 | .T6 1986
Contents:
Foreword -- Editor's note -- 1. The Topkapı Saray Museum: the Library and its origins -- 2. Scriptoria and studies: organization and methods -- 3. Approval and disapproval of images in Islam -- 4. Libraries in early Islam -- 5. Secular illustration -- 6. The Mongols -- 7. The Timurids and their rivals -- 8. China, chinoiserie and Islam in the fifteenth century -- 9. The Uzbeks and the Safavids -- 10. The Ottomans: origins -- 11. The Ottomans: the Classical age -- 12. Ottoman religious painting -- 13. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Westernization -- Select bibliography -- Maps -- Glossary -- Concordance of illustrations -- Index.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Folio Folio The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 53 - Main Room
A3a(f) ISTAN 21893 Not for loan BOOKS*000000014831

Based on: Topkap Saray Müzesi. Islâm minyatürleri / by Filiz Çagman and Zeren Tannd.

Includes index.

"Select bibliography": p. 267.

Foreword -- Editor's note -- 1. The Topkapı Saray Museum: the Library and its origins -- 2. Scriptoria and studies: organization and methods -- 3. Approval and disapproval of images in Islam -- 4. Libraries in early Islam -- 5. Secular illustration -- 6. The Mongols -- 7. The Timurids and their rivals -- 8. China, chinoiserie and Islam in the fifteenth century -- 9. The Uzbeks and the Safavids -- 10. The Ottomans: origins -- 11. The Ottomans: the Classical age -- 12. Ottoman religious painting -- 13. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Westernization -- Select bibliography -- Maps -- Glossary -- Concordance of illustrations -- Index.