illustrations

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The text does not provide a specific chemical recipe but notes that the 'constituent arts of the book' (painting, calligraphy, bookbinding and illumination) are often considered independently in formalist structures (p. 33). It notes that 'practical information on materials and techniques' for these arts is found in specialized works like those of Mehmet Uğur Derman (p. 48).

Evidence

"The most famous instance of this occurring is the Paris art dealer George Demotte’s (1877-1923) dismantling of the so-called Great Mongol Shāhnāma, a monumental illustrated manuscript which was probably produced for the Ilkhanids in the 1330s."

Remarks

The author discusses the physical destruction of manuscripts for profit, specifically how illustrations were removed from their original contexts in the Great Mongol Shāhnāma (c. 1330s) (p. 33). This dismantling of illustrated manuscripts helped to normalize the analysis of pigments and paintings in isolation from their codicological and socio-cultural environment (p. 33).