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Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an
by Elaine Wright
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good +
- ISBN 10
- 1912168049
- ISBN 13
- 9781912168040
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Ad Ilissvm, 2018. 352pp. Index. Original yellow cloth covered boards. Pages are clean (unmarked) but lightly age-toned. Binding is tight and secure. Boards have slight denting to head/heel of spine, bumping to corners, rubbing to extremities. Unclipped pictorial DJ has bumping to head/heel of spine, nicking to corners, rubbing to extremities. We have added a removable mylar covering to the dust jacket for protection. The Chester Beatty Library’s 16th-century Ruzbihan Qur’an—produced in the city of Shiraz in southwest Iran—is one of the finest Islamic manuscripts known. In terms of both materials and workmanship, it is exquisite: lapis lazuli and gold, the two most expensive pigments available, are used on every page, while the rendering of the decoration is exceptionally fine. This is the most detailed and comprehensive study of any Islamic manuscript—and it is well worthy of such scrutiny. Nice copy overall. . First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Good/Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mylared.
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- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139340
- Title
- Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an
- Author
- Elaine Wright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1912168049
- ISBN 13
- 9781912168040
- Publisher
- Ad Ilissvm
- Date Published
- 2018
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Islam Art Chester Beatty Ruzbihan Qur’an
- Bookseller catalogs
- Islam;
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