Chester Beatty

Sir Thomas W. Arnold Illustrator: NA: Indian Miniatures: The Library of A. Chester Beatty, Aryan Books International, New Delhi 2008 ISBN: 9788173053443

New Hardcover 25 x 37 cm. This volume is devoted to the large collection of Indian miniatures executed over a period of three centuries from about AD 1550 until AD 1800. All these paintings were acquired by one of the great collectors of the world Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968) and at present, are lodged in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Chester Beatty's collection is superb and provides representative and thorough documentation of the period. It provides basic information about the Indian art during 16th-18th centuries. The Library possesses eighteen illustrated manuscripts including the most prestigious Akbarnama, a chronicle of Akbar the Great, besides the Royal Albums containing allegorical, apotheosis and dynastic portraits of the Mughal emperors and genre scenes portraying ordinary life. Each miniature is arranged (as far as possible) in chronological order and the theme of each miniature is given in brief with authors' (T.W. Arnold and J.V.S. Wilkinson) comments on style and technique. Further, the rendering of the inscriptions found on the miniatures giving the artists' name together with other related information designate the volume as a reference work. Illustrated with 103 paintings it encompasses all the major facets of the 16-18th centuries Indian art. Truly, the Catalogue is a timeless endowment of Chester Beatty for all of us. The Catalogue, first published in 1936 is now rare and a reprint of the same in agreement with its excellence fulfils the most cherished mission of the great Collector who was always anxious to make his material available to scholars by means of beautifully published comprehensive and descriptive catalogues, art-exhibitions, and generously extending all facilities to the researchers, scholars and students at the Library. The Catalogue, initially published in a set of three separate volumes, now bound in one volume is handy. It will be widely read by the students and specialists of art history and South Asian studies. An 'Introduction' to the volume by Professor S.P. Verma will be a fit guide to the charming field of Indian art. Printed Pages: 144. First edition

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N. A. Pedersen (ed.): Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum : Series Coptica COP 2 Manichaean Homilies, Brepols Verlag ; fester Einband / hard cover ISBN: 9782503510453
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Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum : Series Coptica COP 2 Manichaean Homilies N. A. Pedersen (ed.) 260 p., 20 b/w ill., 210 x 297 mm, 2006 ISBN: 978-2-503-51045-3 Languages: German Hardback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 100,00 How to order? The Manichaean Homilies was the title which H.J.Polotsky chose for his edition and German translation in 1934 of 48 leaves from a papyrus-codex which, together with some other manuscripts, was found by Egyptian peasants in 1929 in Medinet Madi in the Faijum. These 48 leaves were acquired by Sir A. Chester Beatty and received the designation "Chester Beatty Library Codex D". Beatty's collection is now in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Photographs of the 48 leaves and some fragments were published in a facsimile edition by S. Giversen in 1986. This, however, is a new critical edition of the manuscript itself. Published under the Auspices of the Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library and under the Responsibility of the International Committee for the Publication of the Manichaean Coptic Papyri from Medinet Madi belonging to the Chester Beatty Library (Sören Giversen, Rodolphe Kasser, Martin Krause) Hardcover Buch

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(Mende, Matthias - Einführung u. Katalog): Dürer in Dublin. Kupferstiche und Holzschnitte Albrecht Dürers aus der Chester Beatty Library. - Engravings and Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer from the Chester Beatty Library. Nürnberg, Hans Carl, 1983,
Kanten berieben, Ecken bestoßen. Exlibris eines namhaften deutschen Kunsthistorikers u. Dürer-Forschers. Innen frisch.

Folio. Mit 95 Taf. u. 95 S. Katalog, deutsch u. englisch. XXII S. Einführung, 5 Bl. Bibliographie. OPp. m. Deckelillustr. u. Rückentitel.

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Graphik/Holzschnitten/Japan/Nippologie/Künstlermonographien/Kunstgeschichte/XIX. Jahrhundert/Papierwesen/Kulturgeschichte/Asiatica/Ausstellungen - Miya, Tsugio: TALES OF JAPAN (JAPANISCHE FARBENHOLZSCHNITTE) *. Oriental Treasures from the Chester Beatty Collections. Japan/Irland, Im Auftrag d. Ausstellungsleitung, 1989.
* Ausstellung Mai-Juli 1989 in Japan (Kobe, Tokyo u. Nagoya) u. in der Chester Beatty Library & Gallery of Oriental Art in Dublin...

Erstauflage/ First publication. Bll. + 96 S. v. rechts nach Links mit zahlr. s/w. aber meist. farb. Abb. v. Holzschnitte u. a. Kunstwerke mit japan.-Text-Erklärungen u. Extra-Broschur (12 S.) in Englisch mit Beschreibungen von 115 Objekte. 4°, OIll.-Broschur oder Paperback. Gutes Exemplar.

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