Research Catalog

Title

Islamic manuscripts in the New York Public Library / Barbara Schmitz ; with contributions by Latif Khayyat, Svat Soucek, Massoud Pourfarrokh.

Author

Schmitz, Barbara

Publication

• New York : Oxford University Press : The Library, 1992.
• ©1992

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Khayyāṭ, Laṭīf
• Soucek, Svatopluk
• Pourfarrokh, Massoud
• New York Public Library, issuing body.

Description

xxix, 439 pages, 112 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 29 cm.

Summary

"This multifaceted publication includes a catalogue of over 3,200 Persian, Indian-Islamic, Turkish, and Arabic miniatures in The New York Public Library, principally from its Spencer Collection, accompanied by more than 300 photographs, 24 in color; a catalogue of all Islamic manuscripts in the Library qua manuscripts - notable among these are 400 Arabic manuscripts from the Library's Manuscripts and Archives Department that principally come from a library of the writings and manuscript of a prominent Baghdad family, formed over a period of 300 years. Current critical bibliographies of Islamic miniature painting are presented in introductions to the sections on Arabic, Persian, Indian-Islamic, and Turkish illustrated manuscripts. There are also descriptions of all significant bookbindings, in leather and lacquer-painted, and illuminations, most prominently numerous Qurans and Quranic commentaries." "This book represents the first comprehensive publication of a collection of Islamic miniature painting in a major American library or museum."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in Islamic art

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in Islamic art.

Subjects

• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
• Manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Informational works
• Library catalogs
• Catalogs
• New York (State) > New York
• New York Public Library
• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• Manuscripts > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• New York Public Library Catalogs
• Manuscripts, Turkish > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• Manuscripts, Arabic > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• Manuscripts, Persian > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Catalogs.
• Library catalogs.
• Informational works.

Note

• Series information taken from book jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-394) and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Vartan Gregorian -- The collection / Donald F. Anderle and Robert Rainwater -- Arabic illustrated manuscripts -- Persian illustrated manuscripts and lacquer bindings -- Illustrate manuscripts of the Late Mughal and Provincial Indian Schools -- Turkish illustrated manuscripts -- Manuscripts in Arabic -- Manuscripts in Turkish.

Call Number

Z6621.N56

ISBN

• 019505752X
• 9780195057522

LCCN

88037383

OCLC

18780132

Author

Schmitz, Barbara, author.

Title

Islamic manuscripts in the New York Public Library / Barbara Schmitz ; with contributions by Latif Khayyat, Svat Soucek, Massoud Pourfarrokh.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press : The Library, 1992.

Copyright Date

©1992

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in Islamic art

Oxford studies in Islamic art.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-394) and indexes.

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Publisher description

Added Author

Khayyāṭ, Laṭīf, contributor.

Soucek, Svatopluk, contributor.

Pourfarrokh, Massoud, contributor.

New York Public Library, issuing body.

Other Form:

Online version: New York Public Library. Islamic manuscripts in the New York Public Library. New York : Oxford University Press : The Library, 1992 (OCoLC)645844311

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR Z6621.N56 N48 1992

*OFCA+ 08-5720 (Locked cage)

*R-Spencer 96-7864