Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library

by Svat Soucek, New York Public Library, Barbara Schmitz

This is the first comprehensive publication of a collection of Islamic miniature painting in a major American library or museum. It presents over 3200 Persian, Indian-Islamic, Turkish, and Arabic miniatures in the New York Public Library--principally from the Spencer collection--accompanied by 320 photographs, 24 in color; catalogues of all Islamic manuscripts in the Library qua manuscripts, including a unique collection from Baghdad; and current critical bibliographies of Islamic miniature painting. Schmitz provides descriptions of all significant bookbindings, in leather and lacquer-painted, and numerous Qur'ans and Qur'anic commentaries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019505752X
• ISBN13: 9780195057522
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.8" x 11.3"