Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Before the codex there were already ‘books’. The volumen is such an earlier book form: Source: Déroche 2006, p. 13
‘A Reading from Homer’ for an audience of young and beautiful people, with the use of a parchment scrol, a ‘volumen’. Classicist painting by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1838-1912) of a reading session, as imagined by the painter in 1885. Source: Original painting, oil on canvas, 91.8 x 183.5 cm, in Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Page 1 and 2: Islamic Codicology and Paleography
Page 3: The term ‘Codicology’ is derive
Page 7 and 8: Outside the Mediterranean world ent
Page 9 and 10: Wood can also be used as writing ma
Page 11 and 12: Qalam or Qasab (reed, sugar reed) a
Page 13 and 14: Parchment, showing which part of th
Page 15 and 16: Qur’an 8:1-13. The first line rea
Page 17 and 18: A Maghribi (or Andalusi?) Qur’an
Page 19 and 20: Fictitious portrait of Tsai Lun, th
Page 21 and 22: ‏:(ورق،‏ قرطاس،‏ ك
Page 23 and 24: A papermaker at work: 1. Pulp is ma
Page 25 and 26: Structure of Oriental paper with ch
Page 27 and 28: A (Hebrew) manuscript on Oriental p
Page 29 and 30: Colophon, dated Dhu al-Qa‘da 252
Page 31 and 32: The advantages of paper over parchm
Page 33 and 34: Detail of a metal paper mould from
Page 35 and 36: Islamic watermarks in European pape
Page 37 and 38: A library in the City of Helwan. Ab
Page 39 and 40: Illuminated title-page of Shawarid
Page 41 and 42: Complexities: Not all manuscripts o
Page 43 and 44: Complexities: Not all manuscripts o
Page 45 and 46: Complexities: Not all Islamic manus
Page 47 and 48: Drawing of the human organ of speec
Page 49 and 50: Another ceramic inkwell, with silve
Page 51 and 52: Inkwell from Central-Asia for makin
Page 53 and 54: Portable penholder with inkwell, fo
Page 55 and 56:
Reed pens, Middle-East. Source: Ori
Page 57 and 58:
A mistara from South Arabia, with a
Page 59 and 60:
A simple student’s mistara from E
Page 61 and 62:
The components and proportions of t
Page 63 and 64:
| وفى اخره ما مثاله
Page 65 and 66:
Examples of ihmāl signs: v-sign on
Page 67 and 68:
Sharḥ al-Farāʾiḍ al-Sirāǧiy
Page 69 and 70:
Ta ṣliya prayer. Mention of ʿAbd
Page 71 and 72:
Syair Ken Tambuhan. Malay poetical
Page 73 and 74:
The bookbinder at work. A survey of
Page 75 and 76:
The Islamic bookbinding and its con
Page 77:
One of the best-known authorities o
show all

Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?