Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Arabic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office: pt. 1. Qurʼānic literature
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Arabic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts of the Libraries of the King of Oudh, Compiled Under the Orders of the Government of India
Author: Aloys SprengerArabic Type-Making in the Machine Age
Author: Titus NemethPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004349308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Arabic is the third most widely used script in the world, and gave rise to one of the richest manuscript cultures of mankind. Its representation in type has engaged printers, engineers, businesses and designers since the 16th century, and today most digital devices render Arabic type. Yet the evolution of the printed form of Arabic, and its development from metal to pixels, has not been charted before. Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age provides the first comprehensive account of this history using previously undocumented archival sources. In this richly illustrated volume, Titus Nemeth narrates the evolution of Arabic type under the influence of changing technologies from the perspective of a practitioner, combining historical research with applied design considerations.
The Diez Albums
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004323481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The five Diez albums in Berlin, acquired by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in Constantinople around 1789, contain more than 400 figurative paintings, drawings, fragments, and calligraphic works originating for the most part from Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid workshops. Gonnella, Weis and Rauch unite in this volume 21 essays that analyse their relation to their “parent” albums at the Topkapı Palace or examine specific works by reflecting upon their role in the larger history of book art in Iran. Other essays cover aspects such as the European and Chinese influence on Persianate art, aspects related to material and social culture, and the Ottoman interest in Persianate albums. This book marks an important contribution to the understanding of the development of illustrative imagery in the Persianate world and its later perception. Contributors are: Serpil Bağcı, Barbara Brend, Massumeh Farhad, Julia Gonnella, Claus-Peter Haase, Oliver Hahn, Robert Hillenbrand, Yuka Kadoi, Charles Melville, Gülru Necipoğlu, Bernard O'Kane, Filiz Ҫakır Phillip, Yves Porter, Julian Raby, Christoph Rauch, Simon Rettig, David J. Roxburgh, Karin Rührdanz, Zeren Tanındı, Lâle Uluç, Ching-Ling Wang, and Friederike Weis.
A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Author: Wellcome Historical Medical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Catalogue of all Arabic manuscripts in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Plates are facsimiles from selected Arabic works.
Medieval Damascus
Author: Hirschler Konrad HirschlerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.
The Pennsylvania Tradition of Semitics
Author: Cyrus Herzl GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Arabic Manuscripts On Medicine and Science
Author: A. Z. IskandarPublisher: I. B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781860646201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For centuries the development of medical science was beholden to the world of Islamic culture for the discovery, classification, and recording of human ailments and the remedies available in medieval times. The 197 Arabic manuscripts—catalogued in this volume and containing 245 works devoted to the medicine and science of the medieval Muslim era—comprise part of the rich collection of Arabic manuscripts preserved in the Wellcome Library. The volume includes items from all the major medieval authors in the history of medicine in the Islamic world and describes the earliest examples of their work.
Die Wunder der Schöpfung
Author: Helga RebhanPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783880080058
Category : Manuscripts, Arabic
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description