Title: Ibn Qutaybah’s Kitab adab al-kuttab
Date: dated Rabi‘ al-awwal 538 (September–October 1143)
Location: The Jazirah or Iran
Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; contemporary brown leather binding with stamped, painted and blind-tooled decoration
Dimensions: 255 folios; 20 x 14 cm
Accession Number: MSS 606
Other Notes:
illuminated single-page frontispiece for each of the two parts of the work; leather binding
Script:
copied by Muzaffar ibn ‘Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mayyafariqi
Bibliography:
F. Maddison & E. Savage-Smith, Science, Tools & Magic, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume XII, Part One, London 1997, cat.11, pp.40–41.
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.277, p.242.
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