The arts of ornamental geometry : : a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking figures = Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r) : a volume commemorating Alpay Ozdural / / edited by Gulru Necipoglu ; with contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk [and four others].
This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P...
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| Superior document: | Studies and Sources in Islamic Art and Architecture, Volume 13 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English French |
| Series: | Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture ;
Volume 13. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: In Memory of Alpay Özdural and His Unrealized Book Project / Gülru Neci̇poğlu
- 1 Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences / Gülru Neci̇poğlu
- 2 An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources / Elaheh Kheirandish
- 3 A Mathematical Classification of the Contents of an Anonymous Persian Compendium on Decorative Patterns / Jan P. Hogendijk
- 4 Preliminaries / Alpay Özdural
- Translation, Transcription, and Drawings / Alpay Özdural , Wheeler M. Thackston and Gülru Necipoğlu
- Facsimile / Gülru Necipoğlu.