illumination

Evidence

"Analysing illumination, in addition to calligraphy and bookbinding, is important because it provides extra layers of visual analysis and presents a corrective to the attention given to painting in the field of the arts of the book."

Remarks

The author examines Islamic illuminated manuscript material produced between the 1270s and 1370s (p. 13). It is argued that illumination, along with calligraphy and binding, should be analyzed to understand the manuscripts as 'whole objects' (p. 3). The focus on illumination provides a necessary corrective to the nineteenth-century bias toward painting and miniatures, which has led to the neglect of this period (p. 16).