Calligraphers and painters
Subtitle: a treatise
By: by Qādī Aḥmad, son of Mīr-Munshī, circa A.H.1015/A.D.1606, translated from the Persian by V. Minorsky. With an introd. by B.N. Zakhoder, translated from the Russian by T. Minorsky
Series: Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art. Occasional papers -- v. 3, no. 2
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / -- B. N. Zakhoder -- I.; title: The author -- -- II.; title: The works of Qādī Aḥmad and the dating of the Treatise on calligraphers -- -- III.; title: Contents of the treatise -- -- IV.; title: Geography in the treatise -- -- V.; title: The manuscripts of the treatise --; title: Qādī Aḥmad's treatise -- -- Dedication : eulogies -- Introduction -- Chapter one.; title: On thulth and other similar styles (of writing) and their origins -- -- Chapter two.; title: On the masters of the ta'liq style -- -- Chapter three.; title: On the masters of the nasta'liq style -- -- Chapter four.; title: On painters, gilders, masters of gold sprinkling and "découpé" work, dyers of paper, and on other cognate matters -- -- Appendix.; title: Conclusion ---- Manuscripts and books quoted-- Index.