The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library M...
The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library M...
The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956 / Gülru Necipoğlu ; with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al-Asad.
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Publisher
Santa Monica, CA : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995.
Date
1995.
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NF720.22255/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 395 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 x 35 cm.
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Publisher
Santa Monica, CA : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995.
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California
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
Precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world. One exceedingly rich and valuable source of information, however, is the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum, examined here by Gulru Necipoglu. In The Topkapi Scroll - Geometry and Ornament in I...
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The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956 / Gülru Necipoğlu ; with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al-Asad.
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Sketchbooks & albums.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-380) and index.
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NF720.22255/1
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74VvpEwpxwNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpEwpxwNZ
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ISBN
0892363355
9780892363353
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720.22255
MMS ID
991005290639702626
