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Illuminated shamsa combining Shahrukh's ex libris and the contents of the book

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Description: Illuminated shamsa combining Shahrukh's ex libris and the contents of the book
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Description: The Persian Album, 1400–1600
AT THE beginning of the fifteenth century, the book was conceived as an object comprising a binding and a textblock of sheets on which practitioners—chiefly calligraphers, painters, and illuminators—had performed their art. Some flexibility was possible in the sequence of drafting and executing illumination, drawing, and painting and in the addition of rulings, but by and...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.149-179
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00153.006

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