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Geometry in Gold - An Illuminated Mamluk Qur'an Section (Paperback)
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Geometry in Gold - An Illuminated Mamluk Qur'an Section (Paperback)
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List price R625
Loot Price R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
You Save R128 (20%)
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This book is devoted to a monumental and superbly illuminated very
large early fourteenth-century Mamluk Qur'an in muhaqqaq script. It
constitutes the final part (JuzO 30) of a superb two-volume QurOan
of which the first volume is preserved in the National Museum in
Damascus while the second volume, from which the present section
originates, is widely dispersed. Remarkably, here the final part of
the QurOan is reunited with its magnificent and richly decorated
double finispieces, thus reassembling what must have been among the
most striking and lavishly illuminated sections of the entire
manuscript. The high degree of inventiveness along with the overall
quality of the manuscript point to the work of a master artist.
Especially the geometric proficiency suggests the work of Muhammad
ibn Mubadir, one of the leading illuminators in Mamluk Cairo at the
turn of the thirteenth century. Although little is known of the
life of this artist, his illumination in the Baybars al-Jashnagir
QurOan, now in the British Library, and a QurOan copied in 1306-10
for an unknown patron, now in the Chester Beatty Library,
constitute some of the most celebrated achievements of Mamluk
QurOan illumination."
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