Beschreibung:

124 S.; zahlr. farb. Illustr.; 31,5 cm. Originalleinen mit farb. illustr. Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag stw. berieben. - Englisch u. russisch. - ... Persian-Tajik literature was created on a vast territory. Its spreading proceeded successfully through migration of poets and cultural workers, as well as, and chiefly, through sending MSS., very often decorated with illustrations. Works of secular literature, as papers on natural science, historical books, most frequently poems, used to be decorated with miniatures. With the progress achieved by poetry came greater and wider possibilities for the art, illustrating it. New poems, genre and plot caused variety in miniature painting, each enriching it with a new subject. Poetry was undoubtedly connected with premoslem literature, with ancient legends and tales in Middle Iranian languages, the same as we find traces of miniature in preislamic monumental painting, pictures on metal and ceramics. This connection is beyond doubt. But it should not be forgotten that classical Persian-Tajik literature and miniature painting illustrating it are phenomena belonging to a different epoch, which brought forward its own demands and aims specifying their way of development. Miniature was now used in MSS. copied in the Arabic script. Presenting one of the elements of book decoration it could not ignore the style of the writing, the style of its general design. The art of MS. decoration required irreproachable unity of all elements of decoration, their mutual conditionally. Exact proportion regularities between the text and the miniatures, the text and the margins were established in the process of development, as well as the rhythmical accord of writing and painting, coordination of the plane principle in miniature and the plane ornamentation of book decoration. ? (Seite 7)