Arabic Lithographed Books: In the Islamic Studies Library, McGill University - Couverture rigide

Gacek, Adam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0773514511 ISBN 13 : 9780773514515

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Adam Gacek describes the collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arabic lithographed books preserved in the Islamic Studies Library at McGill University, which consists of 264 volumes (410 individual works) printed in North Africa, the Middle East, and India and spans the traditional Islamic disciplines. Many of the books in this collection are beautiful examples of calligraphy and decoration, with exquisite title pages, elegant headpieces of floral and vegetal design, decorative medallions, and notes and glosses arranged in various shapes and forms. Arabic Lithographed Books includes ninety illustrations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adam Gacek is head librarian of the Islamic Studies Library, McGill University. He has lectured on Arabic manuscripts at Columbia, Yale, Brown, and Pennsylvania University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773514511
• ISBN 13: 9780773514515
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible