Background
Schmitz, Barbara was born in 1936 in Cincinnati.
(This is the first comprehensive publication of a collecti...)
This is the first comprehensive publication of a collection of Islamic miniature painting in a major American library or museum. It presents over 3200 Persian, Indian-Islamic, Turkish, and Arabic miniatures in the New York Public Library--principally from the Spencer collection--accompanied by 320 photographs, 24 in color; catalogues of all Islamic manuscripts in the Library qua manuscripts, including a unique collection from Baghdad; and current critical bibliographies of Islamic miniature painting. Schmitz provides descriptions of all significant bookbindings, in leather and lacquer-painted, and numerous Qur'ans and Qur'anic commentaries.
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(Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there ...)
Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there is a choice collection of Islamic and Indian material, including illustrated manuscripts, single miniatures, albums of paintings and calligraphies and bookbinding. Six sections cover Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Provincial Mughal and Indian arts, and albums.
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Schmitz, Barbara was born in 1936 in Cincinnati.
AM, University Chicago, 1960. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1981.
Professor, advisor Lahore College Women University, Pakistan, 2007—2009, Punjab University, Lahore, since 2010.
(Among the treasures of the Piermont Morgan Library there ...)
(This is the first comprehensive publication of a collecti...)