1997, ISBN: 0875981186

[EAN: 9780875981185], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York], BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PRINTING, PIERPONT MORGAN ;, Black glossy illustrated wraps; black clot… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780875981185], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York], BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PRINTING, PIERPONT MORGAN ;, Black glossy illustrated wraps; black cloth, gilt lettering. (xxii), 513 pages : illustrations (some color). For the first time since Pierpont Morgan purchased his first richly illuminated manuscript in 1899 - an Indian Ragamala - this part of the collection has been catalogued. Included are the late thirteenth-century Manafi-i hayavan of Ibn Bakhtishu, regarded by Richard Ettinghausen as one of the ten greatest Persian manuscripts, and several albums with fifty-seven miniatures that once belonged to Sir Charles Hercules Read. The Islamic and Indian holdings comprise over one thousand miniature paintings from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries and nearly two hundred Quran leaves from the ninth to the eleventh centuries. Many of these manuscripts and paintings - all of which are fully described - are reproduced here for the first time. Consisting of six sections: Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Albums, Provincial Mughal, and Indian, this catalogue contains numerous indices, including an iconographic index of miniatures., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780875981185

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1997. Hardcover. VG. Black glossy illustrated wraps; black cloth, gilt lettering. (xxii), 513 pages : illustrations (some color). For the first time s… Mehr…

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1997. Hardcover. VG. Black glossy illustrated wraps; black cloth, gilt lettering. (xxii), 513 pages : illustrations (some color). For the first time since Pierpont Morgan purchased his first richly illuminated manuscript in 1899 - an Indian Ragamala - this part of the collection has been catalogued. Included are the late thirteenth-century Manafi-i hayavan of Ibn Bakhtishu, regarded by Richard Ettinghausen as one of the ten greatest Persian manuscripts, and several albums with fifty-seven miniatures that once belonged to Sir Charles Hercules Read. The Islamic and Indian holdings comprise over one thousand miniature paintings from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries and nearly two hundred Quran leaves from the ninth to the eleventh centuries. Many of these manuscripts and paintings - all of which are fully described - are reproduced here for the first time. Consisting of six sections: Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Albums, Provincial Mughal, and Indian, this catalogue contains numerous indices, including an iconographic index of miniatures., Pierpont Morgan Library, 1997, 3<

1997, ISBN: 0875981186

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[EAN: 9780875981185], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 38.67], [PU: The Morgan Library, New York], Jacket, Extensively illustrated in color and black & white. 513 pages. Thick 4to, black cl… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780875981185], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 38.67], [PU: The Morgan Library, New York], Jacket, Extensively illustrated in color and black & white. 513 pages. Thick 4to, black cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Morgan Library, (1997). Fine in near fine dust wrapper., Books<