Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Illuminated Qur’an, from South-East Asia, not dated, but 19th century, assumed so because of provenance history as it was once owned by the Dutch orientalist Taco Roorda (d. 1874). Naskh script for text. Elongated script used for the headings. Beginning of sura 18 (al-Kahf), whereby the illumination serves to indicate that the reader is halfway the text. Right half of an illuminated double page. Source: MS Leiden Or. 2098. f. 140b.
The bookbinder at work. A survey of the tools of the bookbinder. Captions are in Persian, illustration from a Kashmiri manuscript illustrating arts and crafts (written c. 1850-1860). Source: Original MS: India Office Library, London, Or. 1699, here quoted from G. Bosch (a.o.), <strong>Islamic</strong> bindings. Chicago 1981, p. 22.
Page 1 and 2:
Islamic Codicology and Paleography
Page 3 and 4:
The term ‘Codicology’ is derive
Page 5 and 6:
‘A Reading from Homer’ for an a
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: Syair Ken Tambuhan. Malay poetical
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?