Slides used to illustrate 'Early Persian Tilework'

35mm colour slides of tilework and architectural details at mosques, madrasas and other sites in Iran, used to illustrate Pickett's book, 'Early Persian Tilework: the Medieval Flowering of Kashi' (1997). The slides are numbered 1-143 (some numbers are missing), with the numbers relating to the numb...

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Order number: MS 380812 Box 1
Date(s) of creation: c1970-c1994
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MS 380812 Box 1
callnumber MS 380812/3/2
callnumber_txt MS 380812/3/2
callnumber-sort MS 380812/3/2
prefix_number 2
title Slides used to illustrate 'Early Persian Tilework'
scb_date_creation c1970-c1994
scb_level File
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scb_extent 111 slides
format Archive
description 35mm colour slides of tilework and architectural details at mosques, madrasas and other sites in Iran, used to illustrate Pickett's book, 'Early Persian Tilework: the Medieval Flowering of Kashi' (1997). The slides are numbered 1-143 (some numbers are missing), with the numbers relating to the numbers of the illustrations used in the book. Sites covered include: Qala'-yi Bust; Sangan-i Bala; Malik-i Zauzan Mosque; Friday Mosque Minaret, Damghan; Imam Husain Mosque, Ardistan; Ghurid Portal, Friday Mosque, Herat; Minaret of Friday Mosque, Nigar; Gunbad-i Kabud, Maragha; Mihrab of Friday Mosque, Gaz; Gunbad-i Surkh, Maragha; Zain al-Din Minaret, Kashan; Minaret of Jam, Firuzkuh; Friday Mosque, Sangan-i Pain; Friday Mosque, Farumad; Pir-i Bakran; Imamzada Ja'far, Damghan; Bastam complex; Uljaitu's Mausoleum, Sultaniyya; Natanz complex, Khanqah; Friday Mosque, Ushturjan; Tomb tower of 'Ala al-Din, Varamin; Tomb tower of Sultan Haidar, Khiav; Old Mosque, Turbat-i Shaikh Jam; Imamiyya Madrasa; Baba Qasim Mausoleum; Ghaffariya Mausoleum, Maragha; Mil-i Ahangan; Darjazin Tomb Tower, Imamzada Hud; Tuisirkan Tomb Tower; Nizamiyya portal, Abarqu; Sultan Bakht Agha complex; Bagh-i Qush Khana minaret; Madrasa of Shihab al-Din Qasim Taraz; Friday Mosque, Yazd; Madrasa in Friday Mosque, Isfahan; Friday Mosque, Kirman; Pa Minar Mosque, Kirman
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Estate of Douglas Pickett in most cases. Some images appear to have been supplied to Pickett by collegues; where this is the case, the source of the image is indicated in 'Early Persian Tilework'
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Handlist available
scb_related_material A copy of 'Early Persian Tilework: The Medieval Flowering of Kashi' has been transferred to SOAS: see MS380812/1/2.
hierarchy_top_id_raw MS 380812
hierarchy_sequence MS_380812.003.002