Pearls of the Orient : Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library

Parallelsachtitel: Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library
Weitere Verfasser: Allan, Nigel
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; Chicago : Serindia, 2003.
Umfang/Format: 215 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
ISBN: 0906026601
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Asien
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Henry Wellcome and the Asian collections / Nigel Allan
  • Marriage Hebrew style / Nigel Allan
  • Nature of image veneration in Armenia / Vrej Nersessian
  • Between meaning and image : Islamic calligraphy / Nikolaj Serikoff
  • Astrological images in two Persian manuscripts / Sergei Tourkin
  • Love of Krsna in poems and paintings / Dominik Wujastyk
  • 'Reading' Indian manuscript paintings from Punjab / Jeevan Singh Deol
  • Illustrations from the life of the Buddha / William Pruitt, Peter Nyunt
  • Monk travels to heaven and hell / Henry Ginsburg.
  • Rare series of Tibetan banners / Gyurme Dorje
  • Illustrations of ethnic groups in southwestern China / Hartmut Walravens
  • Japanese medical books and illustrations / Peter F. Kornicki.