Qurans And Bindings From The Chester Beatty Library

by David James

An catalogue from the exhibition presented by the World of Islam Festival Trust which showed facsimiles of the collection of original Islamic manuscripts. The Trust employed the medium of color photography to show the manuscripts in the original sizes, so that the skills of the calligraphers and artist, and the beauty of their work, would be reproduced with the high degree of accuracy permitted by modern techniques. Illustrated with several facsimiles. Includes a bibliography and index.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

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Dr. David Lewis James - historian of Islamic art - studied fine art, art history and Arabic at the University of Durham. He worked in Omdurman, Dublin, Cairo and London before moving to Ronda in Spain.

He is the author of several works on the art of the Islamic book including: Qur’ans and Bindings from the Chester Beatty Library (1980), Islamic Treasures of the Chester Beatty Library (1981), Qur’ans of the Mamlūks (1988), The Master Scribes (1991) and numerous articles in scholarly publications. He has published two translations of mediaeval Arabic histories of Islamic Spain: The History of Ibn al-Qūṭīya (2010) and A History of Early al-Andalus, the Akhbār Majmūʿa (2011).