Mediaeval Manichaean book art : : a codicological study of Iranian and Turkic illuminated book fragments from 8th-11th century east Central Asia / / Zsuzanna Gulácsi.
Mediaeval Manichean Book Art focuses on a corpus of c. one hundred fragments of exquisitely illuminated manuscripts that were produced under the patronage of the Turkic-speaking Uygurs in the Turfan region of East Central Asia between the 8th and 11th centuries CE, and used in service of the local M...
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| Superior document: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, v. 57 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
57. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) :; illustrations, map |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- A Codicological Approach to a Unique Group of Objects
- Identifying the Corpus of Manichaean Book Art
- Dating the Remains: Scientific, Textual, and Artistic Evidence
- Codicological Characteristics: Artisanship of Bookmakers and Scribes in Manichaean Turfan
- The Work of the Illuminator: The Four Basic Painting Styles of Turfan Manichaean Book Illumination
- Patterns of Page Arrangement: Integration of Text and Image
- The Written and the Painted Message: Contextual Cohesion of Text and Image
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index.