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Peter Pan and Wendy

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:33:00 +0000

J.M. Barrie. Peter Pan and Wendy.
Illustrator Robert Ingpen, 2004.

Five poems

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:25:00 +0000

Five poems
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE), written in 1059 AH / 1649 CE by Shams al-Dīn Kirmānī. The codex opens with an illuminated titlepiece inscribed hadhā kitāb Khamsah-ʾi Mawlānā Shaykh-i Niẓāmī (fol. 1b). There are additional illuminated headpieces for the subsequent four poems (fols. 22b, 82b, 130b, and 180b). The illustrations are in different styles executed during the Safavid and Qajar periods. The floral lacquer binding dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.

Book of kings

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:25:00 +0000

Book of kings (Shahnama)
This copy of Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah (Book of kings) was written by Muḥammad Mīrak ibn Mīr Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ustādī, most probably in Herat (present-day Afghanistan). It was completed in 1028 AH / 1618-9 CE. There are two Arabic colophons, one at the end of the preface (fol. 7a) and the other at the end of part 1 (fol. 334a). The preface is by Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, who composed it in 346 AH / 957-8 CE. Although incomplete at the end, the manuscript contains eighty-three illustrations. Some are by a later hand and attributed to Safavid artists Rizā ʿAbbāsī and Shaykh ʿAbbāsī in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE (fols. 55b, 62b, 391b, 476b, and 479b). The lacquer binding is not contemporary with the manuscript and dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.

The lights of Canopus

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:24:00 +0000

The lights of Canopus
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of Anvār-i Suhaylī (The lights of Canopus), dating to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. It is a Persian version of Kalīlah wa-Dimnah (The fables of Bīdpāy). It was completed on 26 Jumādá I 1264 AH / 1847 CE by Mīrzā Raḥīm. The text is written in nastaʿliq script in black and red ink, revealing the influence of shikastah script. There are 123 paintings illustrating the text. The Qajar binding is original to the manuscript.

Five poems

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:22:00 +0000

Five poems
This illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) was executed in Safavid Iran and dates to the middle of the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. There are six colophons in Arabic that supply neither the date nor the scribe's name (fols. 31b, 119a, 175a, 238a, 325a, and 371a). The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with section headings in blue. Twenty paintings attributable to the Shiraz school illustrate the text. The dark brown leather binding with central ovals and pendants, all brushed with gold, is original to the manuscript.

Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian nights' entertainments

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:32:00 +0000

Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian nights' entertainments
the text revised and emendated throughout by H.W. Dulcken. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
Published 1865 by Ward and Lock in London.

The most beautiful fairy tales Thousand and One Nights

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:21:00 +0000

Arnica Easterly. The most beautiful fairy tales Thousand and One Nights.
Illustrator Olga Dugina, 2011.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Tue, 22 May 2012 06:13:00 +0000

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Illustrator I. Stepanova, 2010.

The Arabian nights

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:21:00 +0000

Rouse, William Henry Denham, 1863-1950. The Arabian nights.
Publisher: London: E. Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton.
Illustrator Walter Paget, 1863-1935.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:00 +0000

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
Ilustrated in colour and in line by René Bull.
Published 1913 by Hodder and Stoughton in London.

Arabian Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Arabian Tales.
Illustrator Victor Britvin, 2012.

More tales from the Arabian nights

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

More tales from the Arabian nights
based on the translation from the Arabic by Edward William Lane.
Illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany.
Published 1915 by Holt in New York.

Caravanne du sultan ala Mecque

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:32:00 +0000

Author: Vien, Joseph-Marie; Accademia di Francia (Rome, Italy).
Caravanne du sultan ala Mecque; mascarade turque donnée a Rome par Messieurs les pensionnaires de l'Academie de France et leurs amis au Carnaval de l'année 1748. Published 1749 by s.n. in Paris.
Illustrated by Joseph Vien.

The History of Little Mouk

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:57:00 +0000

Wilhelm Hauff. The History of Little Mouk.
Illustrator Anton Lomaev, 2012.

Sinbad the sailor

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Sinbad the sailor & other stories from the Arabian nights.
Published 1914 by Hodder & Stoughton in London.
Illustrator Edmund Dulac.

The Caravan

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:01:00 +0000

Wilhelm Hauff. The Caravan.
Illustrator Nika Goltz, 2008.

Beauty and the Beast

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:01:00 +0000

Rui de Oliveira. A BELA E A FERA.
Livro de Imagens - Picture Book.
Editora FTD, São Paulo 1994.

The Chronicles of Captain Blood

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:55:00 +0000

Sabatini Rafael.
Captain Blood. The Chronicles of Captain Blood.
Illustrator Gennady Novozhilov, 2003.

Harald first of the Vikings

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:51:00 +0000

Harald first of the Vikings by Charles Young.
Illustrator Gertrude Demain Hammond.
Published 1911 by T. Y. Crowell in New York.

Golden book of famous women

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:38:00 +0000

Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women. Published 1919 by Hodder and Stoughton in London, New York.

Chingiz Aitmatov. Novels.

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:13:00 +0000

Chingiz Aitmatov. Novels.
Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea. Cranes Fly Early. The White Steamboat.
Illustrator Svetozar Ostrov, 1980.

The Master and Margarita

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:08:00 +0000

Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita.
Illustrator Andrew Harshak, 1994

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:14:00 +0000

Maria Angelidou. GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
No. 1. HOW THE WORLD BEGUN. ISBN: 960-412-611-3
No. 2. FROM GODS TO MEN. ISBN: 978-960-412-665-1
No.3. FROM MEN TO HEROES. ISBN: 978-960-412-752-8
Illustrator Vasilev Svetlin

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:14:00 +0000

William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Illustrator B. Dehterev, 1965.

Russian folk tales

noreply@blogger.com (Alexander) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Russian folk tales.
Illustrator V. Nemov, 2009.