Title: The Islamic manuscript tradition
Description: Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and paper, Qur'ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and Islamic erotica. All of the paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts discussed here are held in collections at Indiana University.
Subjects: Islamic Civilization, Turkish Manuscripts, Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington), Early printed books, Arabic Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts, Islamic Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Islam, Bloomington (Ind.), Illuminierte Handschrift, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Buchmalerei, Buchkunst, Indiana University Bloomington, Art Museum, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indiana, antiquities
Places: Indiana, Islamic Empire, Bloomington