The arts of ornamental geometry : a Persian compendium on similar and complementary interlocking figures = Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r) : a volume commemorating Alpay Özdural /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017. ©2017 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (374 pages). |
| Language: | English Persian |
| Series: | Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture : supplements to Muqarnas ; volume XIII Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12016508 |
| Summary: | This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile.<br> <br> <br> <br> This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects.<br> <br> <br> <br> For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay Özdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> |
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| Item Description: | Text in English, translated from the Persian ; with fascimilie of manuscript in the Persian. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (374 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789004315204 9004315209 9789004301962 |