Book Description
This second volume of Basil Robinson’s Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth century onwards.
Contents:
- Preface
- ‘Zenith of his Time’: the Painter Pir Ahmad Baghshimali
- Bihzad and his School: the Materials
- Siyah Qalam
- Painter-llluminators of 16th Century Shiraz
- Muhammadi and the Khurasan Style
- Ali Asghar, Court Painter
- The Earliest Illustrated Manuscript of Nizami?
- Two Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Marquess of Bute, I. Two Mathnawis
- Two Illustrated Manuscripts in the Malek Library, Tehran. I. Anthology
- A Persian Battle-Piece
- Prince Baysunghur and the Fables of Bidpai
- Prince Baysunghur’s Nizami: A Speculation
- Unpublished Paintings from a 15th-Century Book of Kings
- The Shahnama of Muhammad Juki, RAS MS 239
- The Dunimarle Shahnama: A Timurid Manuscript from Mazandaran
- The Tehran Manuscript of Kalila wa Dimna: A Reconsideration
- The Durham Gulistan: an Unpublished Timurid Manuscript
- RAS MS 178: an unrecorded Persian Painter
- The John Rylands Layla wa Majnoun and the Bodleian Nawa’i of 1485: a Royal Timurid Manuscript
- ‘A Magnificent MS’: the British Library Shahnama of 1486
- Origin and Date of Three Famous Shah Nameh Illustrations
- Rustam in Battle: A Persian Masterpiece
- An Unpublished Manuscript of the Gulistan of Sa’di
- Isma’il II’s Copy of the Shahnama
- Two Manuscripts of the Shahnama in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. I. Holmes 150
- Two Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Marquess of Bute. II. Anwar i Suhayli of 1593
- A Lost Persian Miniature
- Two Manuscripts of the Shahnama in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. II. Holmes 151
- The Shahnameh Manuscript Cochran 4 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Index
See also:
Volume I
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