This volume on Qur'ans produced in the period after 1600 is published in two parts, each containing entries on some 75 fine examples. Part One dealt mainly with Ottoman, Iranian, and Indian Qur'ans of the 17th and 18th centuries, including material from China, North and East Africa, while Part Two covers the 19th century in Iran and the Ottoman Empire.

The Decorated Word: Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL IV Part 2)

Manijeh Bayani

Khalili Collections

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan is a full, 8-volume descriptive catalogue of the Khalili Collection, one of the world's leading collections of Japanese art of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The volumes are gorgeously illustrated, individually slip-cased, and come with extensive introductory essays (in both English and Japanese) and other helpful critical material.

Treasures of Imperial Japan (9 volume set) (The ^ANasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art)

Arts & Photography

Foundation, The Kibo

History & Criticism

A two-volume work containing 161 examples of the greatest group of Meiji-period masterpieces in metal ever assembled, decorated in an astonishing variety of virtuoso techniques and drawing on Chinese and japanes history, legend and religion. The volume of selected essays is supplied free with this volume.

MEIJI NO TAKARA: TREASURES OF IMPERIAL JAPAN: Metalwork. Parts One and Two (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, VOL II)

IMPEY, Oliver

Harris, Victor

Fairley, Malcolm

'Enamels of the World 1700-2000', consisting of some twelve hundred works, is the largest and most comprehensive private collection known. It provides an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the richness and diversity of the art of enamelling during the past three centuries, ranging from the imposing work of Qing dynasty China and Meiji Japan, to the magnificent creations of Romanov Russia and the royal courts of Europe and the East. Formed with the innovative criterion of considering the subject in a globally, it covers work from all major centres of production, allowing the enamelwork of a specific country to be viewed within its own context and as part of a wider history. This volume presents over three hundred pieces from the collection. The survey starts with an account of the evolution and refinement of the different enamelling techniques. Thereafter it studies the subject thematically, considering the impact of patronage and travel, as well as the role of nationalism in the development of historical revivalism. The enamelwork of China, Japan, the Islamic Lands and Europe are examined both in terms of local development and the assimilation of foreign influence. The history of three firms is reviewed in greater focus - Jean George Rémond, Fabergé and Cartier. Representing different periods within three hundred years covered by the collection, the character of these firms, though largely shaped by the genius of their directors, was also formed by the era in which they flourished. Whether looking at the subject in general or in detail, the reader is presented with an illuminating display of the great technical skill and creative ingenuity of the enamellers of the world. The volume is accompanied by a CD that presents the Khalili Collection of 'Enamels of the World 1700-2000' in its entirety.

Enamels of the World 1700-2000

Williams, Haydn

An exhibition catalogue in full colour of some 350 masterpieces from the Meiji Period. Exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon in 2002.

Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection (Khalili Exhibition Catalogues)

Earle, Joe

Catalogue of more than 300 examples of pre-Islamic and Islamic glass objects that are held in the Khalili Collection. The objects are grouped according to techniques of manufacture and decoration, and chronologically; the catalogue illustrating the development of glass making technology from its Byzantine and Sasanian beginnings into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when European makers found new inspiration in Islamic forms. Mould formed glass and vessels with applied decoration, especially enamelling are well represented in the collection, and those with carved decoration are outstanding.

Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

Goldstein, Sidney M.

Religion & Spirituality

This splendid book describes the Qur'ans of the eight to tenth centuries in the Khalili Collection. It provides an exotically illustrated catalogue with detailed scholarship encompassing the history of the subject.

The Abbasid Tradition (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

Déroche, François

This, the second of the four-volume catalogue of the Qur'anic material in the Collection, covers the period from AD 1000 to 1400 and includes examples from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, India, Spain and North Africa. The 56 items presented here include a Qur'an written in gold in 12th-century Iraq; one of a small group of Qur'ans known to have been produced in Valencia in the same period; and what may be the earliest surviving Qur'an from India. Even more remarkable is a section from a 30-part Qur'an written by Yaqut al-Musta'simi, the greatest Islamic calligrapher of the later Middle Ages: other sections from the same Qur'an are in Istanbul and Dublin, but this is the only one to retain its original illumination. These important items are the subject of substantial new studies and other essays cover Qur'an production in Damascus and manuscript patronage in Shiraz under the Inju'ids and Muzaffarids. The detailed catalogue entries are complemented by multiple colour illustrations, and colophons and other significant documentation are reproduced with full translations.

The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

JAMES, DAVID

The Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands; it is continuing to grow and improve. It contains a large and comprehensive range of Qur'anic material, covering the entire history of Qur'an production from the seventh to the twentieth century, including examples from centres as far apart as Spain and India. This is the third of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection. It includes fifteenth century Qur'ans in Iran, Egypt, Syria, Constantinople, and India; sixteenth century Qur'ans in Iran and India. The lavish presentation of this catalogue is combined with detailed scholarship that not only encompasses the history of the subject, but also presents in accompanying essays new findings that have been made in the course of cataloguing. The text is supported by notes, up-to-date bibliography, and index, while inscriptions are reproduced in their original languages, with English translations. Dr James is an internationally renowned authority on Arab and Persian manuscripts, and on Qur'ans in particular. This book is intended for art historians, Islamicists, collectors and curators of Islamic art.

After Timur: Qur'ans of the 15th and 16th centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

This, the first of two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, deals mainly with Ottoman, Iranian and Indian Qur'ans of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also includes material from China and North East Africa. There are 78 entries and 10 essays on different aspects of Qur'an manuscript production, which - in several cases - break new ground.

The Decorated Word: Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th centuries AD, Part 1 (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

Contadini, Anna

Stanley, Tim

Bayani, Manijeh

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