The look of the book
Subtitle: manuscript production in Shiraz, 1303-1452
By: Elaine Wright
Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; University of Washington Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780295991917
Subjects: History; Iranian Miniature painting; Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Manuscripts; Bookbinding; Persian Calligraphy
Notes: Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, submitted to the Oriental Institute of Oxford University in 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Illumination; title: Codicology; title: Illustration; title: Calligraphy; title: Bookbinding; title: A chronological overview; title: Appendix 1. Textblock formats; title: Appendix 2. Shahnama translations; title: Appendix 3. The distribution of text illustrations in Shahnama manuscripts : number of pages (single sides of a folio) between consecutive illustrations; title: Appendix 4. Script analysis tables for individual manuscripts; title: Appendix 5. Manuscripts and single folios cited.