Taking as a case study the
illustrated manuscripts of the Khamsa (Quintet) of the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1135-1202), Da'adi analyzes the visual language of
illustrated manuscripts in the court at Herat, in modern Afghanistan, during the rule of the sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.
The 60 exhibits include
illustrated manuscripts embellished with gold and featuring different forms of calligraphy from across the centuries and dynasties.
The photographs of
illustrated manuscripts are a special joy to behold, such as the beautiful opening pages of the Buginese manuscript of the I La Galigo: Datu Bissue (Ms.or.fol.
All of these
illustrated manuscripts were the first to bring this important clinical information into the English-language orthopedic literature.
The Relacion is one of the most important
illustrated manuscripts of early colonial Mexico, having been produced in the early 1540s by a Franciscan friar, Jeronimo de Alcala, in close collaboration with P'urhepecha nobles and artists.
The five extant copies of the Fall of Princes with figural illumination vary considerably in their decorative programs, leading Lesley Lawton to remark that they "represent in microcosm the various interpretative and technical solutions available to producers of
illustrated manuscripts in a late medieval English context." (7) The most lavish copy (San Marino, Huntington HM 268, along with the fragment from it that is now British Library, Sloane MS 2452) provides fifty-eight narrative illustrations, each in a framed column miniature.
We can follow the fashions of earlier centuries in various artworks and
illustrated manuscripts. Painters often depicted characters in Biblical stories, for example, in contemporary costume.
Throughout the Renaissance courts of northern Italy, richly
illustrated manuscripts were produced by artists at the request of princes and other nobles.
In their Introduction, the volume's editors describe
illustrated manuscripts as 'associative objects', creating and shaping social bonds (p.
Many
illustrated manuscripts are no longer in bound form because Western sellers sold them page-by-page, presumably to maximize their profits.