emsof Nizami. For beit noted, the famousPersian painters werehardly ever concerned,as so many of theablest Japanese mas-ters were, with theembellishing of bookswritten in their ow nday. The aspirationwith the wealthy Per-sian bibliophiles wasalmost exclusively topossess line copies olthe old… … illustrator there wasthe man adorning thetitle-page with arab-esques, and the like.Never, it seems, didheterodoxy in Persia gothe length of giving tothe Koran decorationsother than these lastnamed. But the de-mand for finely illus-trated secular writingsquickly grew widerin the Salavid periodthan…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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