A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kit?b Na‘t Al-?ayaw?n) in the Ibn Bakht?sh?‘ Tradition

A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kit?b Na‘t Al-?ayaw?n) in the Ibn Bakht?sh?‘ Tradition

Author: Anna Contadini

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-11-11

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9004201009

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A study of the Kit?b Na‘t al-?ayaw?n (Book on the Characteristics of Animals), this book considers together text and image in this unique thirteenth-century manuscript, thereby contributing to the wider scholarship on Middle Eastern painting and art of the pre-modern period.