The masterpiece of Ilkhanid painting is considered to be the fourteenth century Great Mongol Shahnama, which was the largest and most technically sophisticated manuscript of the Ilkhanid school at ...

This is understood as a prohibition of using animal and human forms in texts, textiles and architecture. Islamic calligraphy and illustrated manuscripts have been highly prized for millennia. The ...

Neither have they been considered sufficiently in art-historical discussions of illustrated books. Whereas the origins of Jewish manuscript culture (in particular the transition from an oral to a ...