Une Miniature Religieuse de L’école Arabe de Bagdad. Son climat, sa structure et ses motifs, sa relation avec l’iconographie Chretienne d’Orient.
Farés, Bishr.
4to. xix, 106 pp., of French text, 32 b/w plates, 38 pp., of Arabic text, 30 figures in text, half-title, colour miniature frontispiece, publisher’s original wrappers, faded with light shelf wear, biblio, index, Unopened, Memoires Presentes a L’Institut D’Egypte, Tome 51, Imprimerie de l'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, Le Caire, first edition, 1948.
Synopsis
The first study by an Arab to the paintings depicted in Maqamat al- Hariri. The author consider that the Baghdad school of illuminations is the best example of the importance of religious paintings in Islam. The miniature discussed by Farés is taken from a manuscript kept by Dar al-Kutub Al-Misriyyah dated 1218. [Creswell, 658].