Videos: ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ at the Bodleian Libraries

A series of five films celebrating the Bodleian Libraries’ Persian arts of the book conference (13-14 July). ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition.

The whole collection can be found here.


The History and Highlights of the Persian Collections


Hidden Treasures of the Persian Collections


Making Manuscripts for a Prince of the Black Sheep


The Painted Page and its Colours


Conserving Akbar’s Luxury Manuscript of the Baharistan



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Published by Roisin Astell

Dr Roisin Astell has a First Class Honours in History of Art at the University of York, an MSt. in Medieval Studies at the University of Oxford, and PhD from the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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