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The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Library MS H. 1956
- Title
- The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Library MS H. 1956 / Gülru Necipoğlu ; with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al-Asad.
- Author
- Necipoğlu, Gülru.
- Publication
- Santa Monica, Calif. : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995.
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- Description
- [1 volume]
- 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 Islamic Architecture, Necipoglu undertakes an in-depth analysis of this unusual pattern scroll and sheds new light on architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. She also makes an insightful comparison between the Islamic understanding of geometry and that found in medieval Western art.
- Series Statement
- Sketchbooks & albums
- Uniform Title
- Sketchbooks & albums.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Note
- Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0892363355
- 9780892363353
- LCCN
- 95014621
- OCLC
- ocm59606048
- 59606048
- SCSB-3334561
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries