num_pages: 412
description: Since few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the pre-modern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is a valuable source of information. This text provides an analysis of the scroll dating from the late 15th or early 16th century, and aims to throw light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the 10th and 16th centuries. It compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art.
language: English
title: The Topkapi Scroll -- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
titlecomplete: The Topkapi Scroll -- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Sketchbooks & Albums Series)
genres: Art
ratings_count: 27
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Albert Hourani Book Award
publisher: Oxford University Press