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The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452(The Look of the Book)

The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452(The Look of the Book)


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The Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. It is the first detailed analysis of all aspects of the book--illumination, codicology, illustration, calligraphy, and binding--during this significant era when the "look of the book" was transformed. Four periods of change are identified: the years following 1340, until the end of Injuid rule in Shiraz; the later 1350s and the 1360s, during Muzaffarid rule; the years from 1409 to 1415, when the Timurid prince Iskandar Sultan was governor of Shiraz; and the decade (1435-45) following the death of Ibrahim Sultan, Iskandar's cousin and successor as governor. Although the focus is Shiraz, the author's comparative and chronological approach to the material means production elsewhere in Iran is also considered, while the results of the study increase our understanding of the history and development of the arts of the book not only in Shiraz, or even Iran as whole, but also in other centers of the Islamic world that followed the Iranian model.

Highlights of this book, which is heavily illustrated with exquisite illuminated manuscript pages, are its examination of illumination, an overlooked area of book production; the codicological aspects of the manuscripts, including paper and text layout; and the development of nasta'liq script. The manuscripts studied are held in more than fifty collections, primarily those in Dublin (Chester Beatty Library), Istanbul (Topkapi Palace Library and Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts), London (British Library), Oxford (Bodleian Library); Paris (Bibliotheque Nationale de France); and Washington, DC (Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution).



Table of Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Illumination

Early Injuid Illumination

Il-Khanid Illumination

Late Injuid Illumination

The Evidence of Injuid and Il-Khanid Metalwork

The Issues of Patronage

The Sahih of the Vizier Qutbuddin Sulaymanshah

A Change in Aesthetics: Illuminated Muzaffarid Manuscripts

The Illumination of the Fars Malik Khatun Qur’an

The Development of the Mazuffarid Style

Manuscripts of the Late 1350s and 1360s

The Decoration of Contemporary Metalwork

The Impetus for Change

The Blue-and-Gold Floral Style following the Demise of the Muzaffarids

Illumination under the Jaybirds

Iskandar Sultan in Shiraz and Isfahan

The Illuminated Manuscripts of Iskandar Sultan

Iskandar Sultan’s Role as a Patron of Manuscripts

A Time of Change: From Ibrahim Sultan to the End of Timurid Rule in Shiraz

The Emergence of a New Illumination Style

The Introduction of a New Type of Paper

The Illuminations of Ibrahim Sultan and Baysunghur

Changes in the Manuscript Industry: Production and Patronage

Illumination in the Years Following the Demise of Timurid Control of Shiraz

2. Codicology

Textblock Format

The Standard Format

The Three-Sided Marginal Column Format

The One-Sided Marginal Column Format

Placement of Textblock on the Folio

The Size and Proportions of Folios and Textblocks

Folio Area

Folio and Textbook Proportions: Height to Width Ratios

Paper Production

Paper of Laid Construction

Paper of Wove Construction

Flocculency of Paper

Paper Color

Paper Thickness

Sizing and Burnishing

“Wove-Like” Paper in Manuscripts of the Period 839-48 / 1435-36 to 1444-45

3. Illustration

An Overview of Shiraz Styles

The Basic Shirazi Mode of Painting

Injuid Paintings

Muzaffarid-Style Paintings

Paintings of the Early Timurid, Pre-Iskander Era

Paintings of Iskandar Sultan

Paintings from the Time of Ibrahim Sultan to 1452

Modes of Illustration

Ettinghausen’s Literary Model for the Categorization of Persian Painting

The Case of Ibrahim Sultan’s Shahnama

The Layout of the Folio: The Integration of Text and Image

The Shahnama Manuscripts of Baysunghur and Ibrahim Sultan

Folio Layout in Other Manuscripts of the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries

The Selection of Illustrations

4. Calligraphy

The Evolution of Nasta’liq Script

Persian Hanging Scripts

The Distringuishing Traits of Naskh and Nasta’liq

The Method of Analysis

The Corpus of Manuscripts

Results of the Script Analysis

Interpretation

Supporting Documentation

An Overview of the Development of Natsa’liq

5. Bookbinding

Construction

Decoration

Binding Decoration in the Fourteenth Century

Binding Decoration in the First Decade of the Fifteenth Century

Shiraz versus Herat: Bindings from the Time of Ibrahim Sultan and Baysunghur

The Tooled Bindings of Shiraz

6. A Chronological Overview

The Origins of the Classical Persian Manuscript: Changes of the Late 1350s and 1360s

The Cultural and Political Milieu of Fourteenth-Century Shiraz

Shiraz as a Center of Innovation

The Period of Change under Iskandar Sultan

The Decade of Change Following the Death of Ibrahim Sultan

Conclusion

Appendixes

1. Textblock Formats

2. Shahnama Translations

3. The Distribution of Text Illustrations in Shahnama Manuscripts

4. Script Analysis Tables for Individual Manuscripts

5. Manuscripts and Single Folios Cited

Notes

Bibliography

Index



About the Author :

Elaine Wright is curator of the Islamic Collections at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland.



Review :
"The publication of Elaine Wright's pioneering doctoral thesis is a milestone in the history of the Islamic arts of the book. It is a truly comprehensive survey, based on a large corpus of manuscripts, or production at Shiraz between 1300 and 1452 [...] Particularly valuable are Wright's essays on illumination and binding [...] Wright's descriptions are both clear and concise" - Burlington Magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780295991917
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Sub Title: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0295991917
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The Look of the Book
  • Weight: 1792 gr


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