The Diez albums / / edited by Julia Gonnella, Friederike Weis, Christoph Rauch.

• TeilnehmendeR: Gonnella, Julia.; Weis, Friederike.; Rauch, Christoph.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic Manuscripts and Books 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (690 pages).
• Notes: Includes indexes.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Contents and Contexts: Re-viewing the Diez Albums /; Memorabilia of Asia: Diez’s Albums Revisited /; The Oriental Manuscripts and Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez and the Perception of Persian Painting in His Time /; The Perusal of the Topkapı Albums: A Story of Connoisseurship /; Repetition of Illustrations in the Topkapı Palace and Diez Albums /; Jaʿfar Tabrizi, “Second Inventor” of the Nastaʿlīq Script, and the Diez Albums /; The Illustration of the Turko-Mongol Era in the Berlin Diez Albums /; The Mongols Enthroned /; Royal Insignia in the Periods from the Ilkhanids to the Timurids in the Diez Albums /; The Depiction of Horses in the Diez Albums /; Brave Warriors of Diez /; Models, Sketches, and Pounced Drawings in the Diez Albums: First Steps in the Making of Illustrated Manuscripts /; A Persianate Drawing of the Tazza Farnese: A Work by Muhammad Khayyam? /; Scientific Investigation of Carbon Inks: An Analytical Challenge /; The Great Mongol Shāhnāma: Some Proposed Repatriations /; The Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma /; The Dīvān of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and the Diez and Istanbul Albums /; Illustrated Messages of Love in the Diez Albums /; Persianate Images between Europe and China: The “Frankish Manner” in the Diez and Topkapı Albums, c. 1350–1450 /; Iconographic Turn: On Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Iconography in the Diez Albums /; The Ottomans in Diez’s Collection /; Appendix 1: Conference Programme --; Appendix 2: Masterpieces from the Serail: The Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751–1817) /; Credits --; Index of Names, Dynasties and Epochs --; Index of Works and Manuscripts --; Index of Places --; Index of Subjects.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004323481
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Julia Gonnella, Friederike Weis, Christoph Rauch.

The five Diez albums in Berlin, acquired by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in Constantinople around 1789, contain more than 400 figurative paintings, drawings, fragments, and calligraphic works originating for the most part from Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid workshops. Gonnella, Weis and Rauch unite in this volume 21 essays that analyse their relation to their “parent” albums at the Topkapı Palace or examine specific works by reflecting upon their role in the larger history of book art in Iran. Other essays cover aspects such as the European and Chinese influence on Persianate art, aspects related to material and social culture, and the Ottoman interest in Persianate albums. This book marks an important contribution to the understanding of the development of illustrative imagery in the Persianate world and its later perception. Contributors are: Serpil Bağcı, Barbara Brend, Massumeh Farhad, Julia Gonnella, Claus-Peter Haase, Oliver Hahn, Robert Hillenbrand, Yuka Kadoi, Charles Melville, Gülru Necipoğlu, Bernard O'Kane, Filiz Ҫakır Phillip, Yves Porter, Julian Raby, Christoph Rauch, Simon Rettig, David J. Roxburgh, Karin Rührdanz, Zeren Tanındı, Lâle Uluç, Ching-Ling Wang, and Friederike Weis.