A world of beasts a thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' tradition /

"The Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relationships...

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Author / Creator:	Contadini, Anna.
Format:	Elektroniczne E-book
Język:	English
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Hasła przedmiotowe:	Naʻt al-ḥayawān > Illustrations. Bestiaries > Arab countries > History and criticism. Bestiaries > History and criticism. Animals in art. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab. Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Arab countries.
Dostęp online:	Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.

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Introduction: image and (con)text
The manuscript
Text and sources
The frontispieces and other human figures
The animals of the Na't
Composition, iconography and style
Date and provenance
Patronage and milieu.

A world of beasts a thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' tradition /

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