Ars orientalis; the arts of Islam and the East

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ARS ORIENTALIS

ARS ORIENTALIS
THE ARTS OF ISLAM AND THE EAST
VOL. 1959
3
FREER GALLERY OF ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Freer Gallery of Art
Washington, D. G.
Smithsonian Publication 4381
PRINTED IN U.S.A. BY THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS, INC.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
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CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Wellesz, Emmy An Early Al-Süfï Manuscript in the Bodleian Li-
A
brary in Oxford: Study in Islamic Constel-
lation Images I
Zbiss, Sllmane-Mostafa Documents d’Architecture fatîmite d’Occident 27
. . . . .
4 Grabar, Oleg The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem . . 33
Otto-Dorn, Katharina Türkische Grabsteine mit Figurenreliefs aus
. . .
Kleinasien 63
Erdmann, Kurt Seraybauten des dreizehnten und vierzehnten Jahr-
hunderts in Anatolien 77
Kirkman, James Mnarani of Kilifi: The Mosques and Tombs . . 95
J Ettinghausen, Richard Near Eastern Book Covers and Their Influence on
. . .
European Bindings: A Report on the Exhibi-
tion “History of Bookbinding” at the Balti-
more Museum of Art, 1957-58 1 1
Welch, Stuart C., Jr. . . . Early Mughal Miniature Paintings from Two
Private Collections Shown at the Fogg Art
Museum
133
Trubner, Henry The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty 147
Toda, Kenji Japanese Screen Paintings of the Ninth and Tenth
Centuries 153
Loehr, Max Apropos of Two Paintings Attributed to Mi
Yu-Jen .... 167
Rudolph, R. C Kuo Pi, a Yuan Artist: and His Diary 175
NOTES
....
Du Bourguet, Pierre Datation des Tissus Coptes en Fonction des Mo-
saïques Meditérranéennes Précisions Nou-
:
velles 189
Erdmann, Kurt Ka‘bah-Fliesen 192
^ Ettinghausen, Richard. Further Comments on the Wade Cup 197
. .
^ Erdmann, Kurt Neue islamische Bergkristalle 200
BOOK REVIEWS
Miles, George C The Iconography of Umayyad Coinage. A Cata-
logue of the Muhammadan Coins in the Brit-
ish Museum, Vols. I and II, by John Walker 207
.
Mendenhall, George E. The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the
.
Old Testament, by James B. Pritchard 213
. . .
Ettinghausen, Richard . . . Islamic Art and Archaeology. A Register of Work
Published in the Year IQ54, by J. D. Pearson
and D. S. Rice 215
Ettinghausen, Richard Islamic Pottery from the Ninth to the Fourteenth
. . .
Centuries A.D. (Third to Eighth Centuries
a.h. in the Collection of Sir Eldred Hitch-
)
cock 216
CONTENTS
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Ettinghausen, Richard Iran. Persian Miniatures. Imperial Library 217
. . . . .
Grabar, Oleg Islamic Architects and Their Works, and Islamic
1
Astrolabists and Their Works, by L. A.
Mayer 220
Grabar, Oleg Philosophie et Jurisprudence Illustrées par les
Arabes, par Bishr Farès 224
Weibel, Adèle Coulin Vorderasiatische Knüpfteppiche aus alter Zeit, von
. . .
Wilhelm von Bode und Ernst Kühnei 226
. . .
Lee, Joseph T. A., and Choy,
Wenyi The Existence of Intangible Content in Architec-
tonic Form, by Amos Ih Tiao Chang 229
. . .
Cahill, James F The Tao of Painting: A Study of the Ritual Dis-
position of Chinese Painting, Vols. I and II,
by Mai-mai Sze 232
Lippe, Aschwin The Landscape Painting of China and Japan, by
Hugo Münsterberg 241
Lippe, Aschwin Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, by
Oliver Statler 244
Jenyns, Soame Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, by
,
John Alexander Pope 245
Aga-Oglu, Kamer China-Trade Porcelain: An Account of Its His-
torical Background, Manufacture, and Deco-
ration, and a Study of the Helena Woolworth
McCann Collection, by John Goldsmith
Phillips 249
Lessing, Ferdinand D. Thirteen Tibetan Tankas, by Edna Bryner 252
. . . . . .
Seckel, Dietrich Streams and Mountains without End. A Northern
Sung Handscroll and Its Significance in the
History of Early Chinese Painting, by Sher-
man E. Lee and Wen Fong 253
MEMORIAM
IN
Barrett, Douglas . . . J. V. S. Wilkinson 259
, Ettinghausen, Richard . Bibliography of the Writings of J. V. S.
Wilkinson 259
Hansford, S. Howard . . Walter Perceval Yetts 262
Near Eastern Editor, Oleg Grabar Far Eastern Editor, Max Loehr
Consultative Committee
Archibald G. Wenley, Chairman
Norman W. Brown Alexander B. Griswold
John D. Cooney George C. Miles
Richard Ettinghausen Laurence Sickman
Antoinette K. Gordon Alexander C. Soper
EDITORIAL OFFICE: DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN