تحىيبو برفائح ذىبية أو فزية

Ingredients

برفائح ذىبية, فزية, أحجار كخيسة

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The decoration involves gilding with gold or silver sheets, often inlaid with precious stones (p. 22). In the Abbasid era, particularly the Iraqi/Baghdad school, artists used gold leaf for illumination (tahdhib) on the margins, headings, and opening pages of manuscripts (p. 21). Decorations could be applied via pressure (al-daght) to create embossed patterns on leather covers (p. 22, 25). Later techniques involved applying gold sheets using a hot tool (آلة ساخشة) to fix them to the leather surface, a method noted to have originated in Marrakesh and moved to Cordoba, Egypt, and Iran (p. 24).

Evidence

"تحىيبو برفائح ذىبية أو فزية مخصعة بأحجار كخيسة"

Remarks

The text highlights the Baghdad school as the first school of Islamic painting, originating in the Abbasid Caliphate (p. 21). It notes the use of 'al-shara' (the sun/central motif) in decorations, where colors and gold were used to embellish the center and corners of the text block (p. 24). Illumination was highly detailed in the 9th and 10th Hijri centuries (p. 21).