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2022, Writing as Intermediary: Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures
2024 •
Paper delivered at the workshop titled "Facing new materials: Changes of Writing Substances, Implements and Supports in Manuscript Cultures" at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Germany (25th-26th January 2024)
The Allure of Matter: Materiality Across Chinese Art (Chicago, 2021)
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 32, 4
'Chinese' Paper and Margins of Gold in a Fifteenth-Century Shiraz Anthology2022 •
An examination of the paper and the unusual decorated margins of a small, but especially interesting anthology of Persian poetry produced in Shiraz in the 1430s or 1440s.
2016 •
When we handle manuscripts or books, we often find various sort of materials placed between the pages to prevent the illustrations from pigment or ink offsetting and charring. These are not always poor quality or modern materials, but are sometimes part of the original conception of the objects. Some Iranian illuminated or illustrated 19th century manuscripts were supplied with a particular kind of interleaf made of thin sheets of skin. The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, houses three manuscripts containing these specific sheets and one copy of a Qur’an whose folia are penned on similar material. Catalogues often mention these sheets to be of gazelle or deer skins, but recent analysis conducted throughthe ‘Books and Beasts’ project at York University in the UK, has identified the species of the animal and corrected this assertion. The new and non-invasive technique developed by the team consists of collecting the eraser waste generated while dry cleaning a parchment surface wi...
MetSpeaks-Spring Fellows Colloquia
Met Fellows Colloquia: The Advent, Evolution, and Impact of Paper Marbling in the Early Modern Islamic World2019 •
Made by floating colors on various liquids and carefully laying a sheet on top, marbled papers have captivated the eyes of many around the world for several centuries. The earliest evidence for this art in the Islamic world dates to turn-of-the-sixteenth-century Greater Iran, where it emerged from a context of multifarious decorated paper production for Persianate manuscripts. By 1600, a far more technically advanced method emerged, made with highly refined mineral pigments and other colorants dispersed on the surface of thickened sizing that yielded far more intricate and consistently formed patterns. Exemplified by the vivid attached margins of The Met’s Mantiq al-Tayr (63.210), these innovations are attributed to the enigmatic Persian artist Muhammad Tahir, an émigré to India, probably to the Deccan Sultanates. His patterning methods rapidly spread from the Indian Subcontinent all the way to Europe, where aside from book bindings, they were soon applied as the first polychrome security device to paper currency issued by the Bank of England in 1695, “Sola bills” for the Georgia Colony in 1740, as well as the first twenty-dollar bills printed in Philadelphia by the Second Continental Congress in 1775.
Studies into the History of the Book and Book Collections
Notes on the early history of paper in Central Asia based on material evidence2020 •
The cultural background of the proliferation of early paper in Central Asia and its use outside China has rarely been explored. Since written sources are inconclusive regarding the origins and spread of papermaking, archaeological and material evidence assumes increased importance. The preserved manuscripts found along the Silk Road have been used as a key source in the study of religion, literature and the cultural history of Central Asia. They have, however, rarely been viewed as artefacts in their own right, with their own specific form and produced by a specific technology. Paper is one of the most important physical aspects of a manuscript and at the same time bears witness to early papermaking technologies. As an introduction to the volume Asian paper as writing support, this article outlines the early history and technology of papermaking as revealed by the oldest manuscripts in existence, those found along the Silk Road.
2021 •
https://www.materialculture.nl/en/research/publications/loose-pages-and-lacquer-covers
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2017 •
Studies in Conservation Volume 60, Supplement 1, 2015 Special Issue: Issue S1: Proceedings of the LACONA 10 Conference, Sharjah 2014, August 2015
MOLAB® meets Persia: Non-invasive study of a sixteenth-century illuminated manuscriptJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports
A study of colourant uses in illuminated Islamic manuscripts from the Qājār period (1789–1925 C.E), early modern Iran2021 •
2008 •
Muqarnas
The Introduction of Paper and the Development of the Illustrated Manuscript in the Islamic Lands2000 •
Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material
European Ink Recipes Found in ‘Ali Ḥosseini’s 19th Century Persian Treatise Kašf al-Ṣanāye‘ (Discovering Crafts) – کشف الصنایع علی حسینیReissland, B. and Hoesel, A. (2019). Manuscripts from Yemen 1786-1937: Analysis of glittering particles and ink composition. Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Cultural Heritage Laboratory. Amsterdam., Research Report 2016-027-a
Manuscripts from Yemen 1786-1937: Analysis of glittering particles and ink composition.2019 •
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, Band: 109
A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts2022 •
Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning, Essays in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand
The Origins and Stylistic Developement of Qur'an Manuscripts in China2022 •
Restaurator-international Journal for The Preservation of Library and Archival Material
European Ink Recipes Found in ‘Ali Ḥosseini’s 19th Century Persian Treatise <i>Kašf al-Ṣanāye‘</i> (Discovering Crafts) – کشف الصنایع علی حسینی2022 •
2018 •
2012 •
Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
An Illuminated Manuscript from Late Fourteenth-Century Shiraz in the Bodleian Library2020 •