The Topkapi Scroll -- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture

by Gülru Necipoğlu

The scant number of drawings and the absence of any theoretical treatises on the architecture of the pre-Islamic world make the late fifteenth-century Timurid pattern scroll in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library an exceedingly valuable source of information. In the course of her analysis of the scroll, Necipoglu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892363355
• ISBN13: 9780892363353
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 7.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 13.8" x 11.4"