Nick McBurney
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Absolutely gorgeous 15th-century binding - not terribly large at ~21 x 13 cm, but, rebacking aside, in splendid condition. Unfair question (doublure not pictured, because it's a dead giveaway): what
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Snakes/ladders, culminating in the throne of God, reached by climbing 100 squares (13 snakes + 17 ladders), ebony and inlaid mother of pearl - detail. A rare 19th c Indian
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I was asked to view the Christie's Qur'an MS which has been much discussed here and elsewhere, and as a result, have a more or less complete set of images
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Ways of looking at a page, since MSS from Iran copied on coated & decorated Chinese paper seem to be a Twitter thing just now: Spencer Collection, Persian MS 41,
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A R A B I C B L O C K P R I N T SA work-adjacent distraction these past months has been re-reading Karl Schaefer's essential survey of
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Saint Matthew [8]Lent ends; Eastertide approaches. These paintings illustrate a manuscript gospel book. I'll be posting the complete sequence over the course the day. Numbers in [x] refer to the
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