LECTURE

‘For the Sake of the Image, or How to Make a Collection: A "Copy" of Ajaeb
al-Makhluqat in Jean Pozzi's Collection’

Negar Habibi

University of Edinburgh, 11.5.23

 

Negar Habibi will present a new paper about Jean Pozzi's Persian collection at the hybrid two-day symposium "Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts," organized by Mira Xenia Schwerda and Lucy Deacon, at the University of Edinburgh.

 

Read the program here

Sîmurgh bringing Zâl back to his father Sâm, Abul Qasem Mansur Tusi. About 1440. Shiraz, image: 133 x 214 mm, sheet: 190 x 157 mm (written surface), sheet: 295 x 222 mm. Black ink, gouache and gold on paper. MAH Museum of Art and History, City of Geneva. Legacy Jean Pozzi, 1971. 1971-0107-0378