This bibliography is derived from an extensive list initally put together by Paul Hepworth (Conservator, Walters Art Museum). It has been augmented with references from the papers written in fulfillment for my MA in Art History, as well as those researched by Yana van Dyke (Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) for a workshop on the Conservation of Indian Miniatures.
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Abdul Muqtadir. Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Public Library at Bankipur. 34vols. Patna: Khuda Bakhsh Library, 1908.
Afshâr, Iraj. “Sahhāfi az negāh-e farhang va tārikh,” Sahhâfi-ye sonnati. Tehran: Kitabkhanah-I Markazi va Markaz-I Asnad-I Danishgah-I, 1978.
Agrawal, O.P. Conservation of Manuscripts and Paintings of South-east Asia. London: Butterworths, 1984.
Agrawal, O.P. 1992. “Preservation of Miniature Paintings.” Marg XLIV, 1:78-80.
Agrawal, Om Prakash and A. S. Bisht. “Non-aquaeous deacidification and preservation of an illustrated Indian Manuscript Leaf.” Studies in Museology 5(1969):34-37.
Agrawal, Om Prakash and Usha Agrawal. Restoration of Indian Art: Some Case Studies, vol. 1. Lucknow, India: INTACH Conservation Center, 1988.
Agrawal, Om Prakash and Rashmi Tiwari. “Mineral Pigments in India.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India 23(1990):41-51.
Arnold, Thomas and Adolf Grohman. The Islamic Book: A Contribution to its Art and History from the VII-XVIII Century. Germany: Pegasus Press, 1929.
Anet, Claude. “Exhibition of Persian Miniatures at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris I and II.” Burlington Magazine, 22(1912):9-17, 105-117.
Mohammad, Amin b. Mirzâ Mohammad Zamân Bokhâri. “Mohit al-tavârikh,” trans. O. Akimushkin in Art et Société dans le Monde Iranien, ed. C. Adle. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilizations, 1982. p. 127-138.
Arnold, Sir Thomas W. Painting in Islam. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.
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Baden-Powell. Economic Products of Punjab.
Bailey, G. A. 1997. “A palette for princes: an unpublished source on Indian Pigments.” South Asian Studies 13. 903.4 In2.
Baker, Don. “A note on the expression ‘… a manuscript on Oriental paper’.” Manuscripts of the Middle East 4(1989):67-68.
Baker, Don. “Arab Papermaking.” The Paper Conservator 15(1991):28-35.
Baker, Don. “The conservation of Jami’ al-Twarikh by Rashid al-Din (1313).” Arts and the Islamic World 20(Spring 1991):32-33.
Banik, G. 1993. “Decay caused by copper pigments and iron gall inks.” ICCROM Paper Conservation Course Notes (unpublished).
Banik, G. and Stachelberger. “Investigation of the destructive action of copper pigments to paper and consequences for conservation.” Preprints: IIC Washington 1982.
Barcham Green, S. 1996. “Rajasthani Papers – Old and New.” Paper Conservation News 78 (June).
Barcham Green, S. 1992. “Tradition Survives in Rajasthan.” Journal of Hand Papermaking.
Barkeshli, Mandana. “The preparation of copper based green pigment (Zangar) in Iran as mentioned in Medieval Persian texts.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India 29(1996):231-236.
Barkeshli, Mandana. “The presence of saffron in Persian miniature paintings and its use as an inhibitor for the destructive effect of verdigris.” 12th Triennial Meeting, Lyon, 29 August – 3 September 1999: International Council of Museums (ICOM), Preprints. Vol 2. London: James & James Ltd., 1999. pp. 489-494.
Barkeshli, Mandana. “The presence of saffron trace in green verdigris pigments used in Persian Miniature painting.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India 30(1997):126-134.
Barro, Elisabeth. “Zangar: A Study of Green Pigments used at the Mughal and Rajput Courts.” BA Thesis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1997.
Behzad, H. Taherzade. “The preparation of the Miniaturist’s Materials.” A Study of Persian Art. Arthur U. Pope, ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1939. Pp. 1921-1927.
Bhowmik, Swarna Kamal. “A non-aqueous method for the restoration of Indian miniature paintings.” Studies in Conservation 12(1967):116-119.
Bhowmik, Swarna Kamal. “A note on the use and deterioration of verdigris in Indian watercolor painting.” Studies in Conservation 15(1970):154-156.
Binyon, L, JVS Wilkinson, and B. Gray. Persian Miniature Painting. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Bish, Tony. “Conservation at the Khalidi Library in the Old City of Jerusalem.” Conference Papers Manchester 1992. Sheila Fairbass, ed. United Kingdom: Institute of Paper Conservation, 1992. Pp. 178-181.
Bisht, A. S. “Preservation of Illustrated Manuscripts and Miniatures painted on both sides.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India 8(1975):38-40.
Bisht, A.S., KK Gupta. 1972. “Preservaton of an illustrated manuscript on Paper.” Conservation in the Tropics: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Seminar on Conservation of Cultural Property, February 7-16, 1972, held at the Central Conservation Laboratory National Museum, Delhi. O.P. Agrawal, ed. Rome: International Centre for Conservation, 1972. Pp. 98-102
Bisht, A.S., CB Gupta, KK Gupta. 1988. “Jhala Haveli Paintings: Their problems and salvaging them for posterity.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India. 21:24-29.
Bisht, A.S., KK Gupta. 1990. “Jhala Haveli (Kotah) paintings: new rigid support.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India. 23:8-12.
Bisht, A.S., IK Bhatnagar, SP Singh (eds). 2000. Conservation of Cultural Property in India. New Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan.
Bloom, Johnathon. “Revolution by the Ream.” Aramco World 50(1999):26-39.
Bloom, Johnathon. Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Boatwala,Mini and Wilfred Maciel. “Handmade Paper in India.” The Penrose Annual 57(1964):281-283.
Bosch, Gulnar, John Carswell and Guy Petherbridge. The Materials, Techniques, and Structures of Islamic Bookmaking. Chicago: The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, 1981.
Bowen, Craigen and Amy Snodgrass. “Line and Color: Materials and Techniques in Kotah.” Gods, Kings, and Tigers: The Art of Kotah. Stuart Cary Welch, ed. New York: Prestel, 1997. Pp. 83-89.
Brand, Michael and Glenn D. Lowry. Akbar’s India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory. New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1985.
Briquet, C. M. “Recherches sur les premiers papiers employés en Occident et en Orient du Xe and XIVe siècle.” Memoires de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, vol. XLVI. Paris: La Société, 1886.
Brown, Percy. “Methods and Materials.” Indian Painting under the Mughals AD 1550 to AD 1750. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975. Pp. 180-194.
Bukhari, Y. K. “Pigments.” Marg 16 (1963):supp. ii-iii.
Bull, William. “An 18th Century Indian Manuscript on Marbling.” Ink and Gall 2 (Summer 1988):5-7.
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Cahaner, N. 1990. “Report on research project from Unviersity of Northumbria at Newcastle.” Paper Conservation News 90:90.
Cahaner, N. May 1999. “Consolidation of Media on Paper.” SSCR Journal. 10(2).
Canby, Shelia. 1999. The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501-1722. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Canby, Shelia. “Materials and Tools of the Persian Artist.” Persian Painting. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Pp. 13-24.
Chakraborty, Rahan, RK Chaturvedi and RK Sharma. “Restoration of a 17th Century Calligraphic Manuscript.” Conservation of Cultural Property in India 27(1994):142-146.
Chandra, Moti. The Technique of Mughal Painting. Lucknow, India: U.P Historical Society, 1949.
Ciomartan, Dan and Robin J.H. Clark. “Raman Microscopy applied to the analysis of the pigments used in two Persian manuscripts.” Journal of Brazilian Chemical Society 7(No. 6, 1996):395-402.
Clare, Jilian and Frederick Marsh. “A dry repair method for Islamic illuminated manuscripts leaves.” The Paper Conservator 4(1979):3-9.
Clark, R.J.H and K. Huxley. “Raman spectroscopic study of the pigments on a large illuminated Qur’an circa 13th century.” Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage 5:2(1996):95-101.
Clark, Robin and Peter Gibbs. “Analysis of a 16th Century Qazwini Manuscripts by Raman Microscopy and Remote Laster Raman Spectroscopy.” Journal of Archaeological Science 25(1998):621-629.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. “The Technique and Theory of Indian Painting.” Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts 3(1934-45):59-89.
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Darrah, Josephine. 1995. “Connections and coincidences: three pigments.” In, Historical painting techniques, materials, and studio practice: preprints of a symposium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 26-29 June `995. Arie Wallert, Erma Hermens, Marja Peek, eds. California: The Getty Conservation Institute.
Das Gupta, R. “Production and conservation of manuscripts in Mediaeval Assam (13th-19th Century).” Conservation of Manuscripts and Documents: Proceedings of the National Seminar held at Bharat Kala, Varanasi, December 14-16, 1990. O.P. Agrawal, ed. Lucknow, India: INTACH, Indian Cosnervation Institute, 1992. Pp. 53-57.
Das, J.P. and Joanna Williams. Palm Leaf Miniatures: The Art of Raghunath Prusti of Orissa. India: Abhinav Publications, 1991. ISBN: 81-7017-275-6
Datta, Sarojit. “Materials and Techniques.” Folk Paintings of Bengal. New Delhi: Khama Publishers, 1993. Pp. 31-39.
Derman, M. Uğur. Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, Istanbul. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.
Dickson, M. B. and Stuart Cary Welch. “Appendix 1: The canons of painting by Sadiqi Bek.” The Houghton Shahname. Vol.1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. 259-269.
Dreibholz, Ursula. “A treasure of early islamic manuscripts on parchment. Significance of the find and its conservation treatment.” AIC Preprints of Papers presented at the 11th annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, 25-29 May 1983. Washington, DC: AIC, 1983. Pp. 30-38.
Dreibholz, Ursula. “Research on early Islamic book covers and book structures in San’a.” Yemen Update: Bulletin of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies 32 (1993):7-8.
Duffy, Kate and Jackie Elgar. 1995. “An investigation of palette and color notations used to create a set of Tibetan thangkas.” Proceedings of Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice.
Dutt, Asoka. 1995. “Papermaking in India.” The Papermaker 24:11-19.
Dutton, Yasin, ed. The Codicology of Islamic Manuscripts: Proceedings of the Second Conference of Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1992. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1995.
• Afshar, Iraj. “The use of paper in Islamic Manuscripts as documented in classical Persian texts.” Pp. 77-91.
• Chabbouh, Ibrahim. “Two new sources of the art of mixing ink.” Pp. 59-76.
Dutton, Yasin. The Codicology of Islamic Manuscripts: Proceedings of the Second Conference of Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 4-5 December 1993. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1995.
Dye III, Joseph. The Arts of India. Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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Ethe, Her,amm. Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. 2 vols. Oxford: H. Hart, 1903-1937.
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Farooqi, Anis. “Pigments and Materials Used in Indian and Persian Miniatures.” Islamic Culture, 51(1977):11-19.
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Guy, John. Palm-leaf and Paper: Illustrated Manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1982.
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al-Hassan, AhmadYusuf and D.R. Hill. Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Hillcoat-Imanishi, Anna; Pauline Weber and Micheal Wheeler. “Conservation, mounting and storage solutions for two Hamzanama folios”. The Paper Conservator, 23 (1999)26-35.
Huart, C.L. and A. Grohmann. “Kāghad.” The Encyclopedia of Islam, IV, 2nd Edition. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978.
Hunter, D. Papermaking by Hand in India. New York: Pynson Printers, 1939.
Hunter, D. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1978.
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Ibish, Yusuf and George Atiyeh, eds. The Conservation and Preservation of Islamic Manuscripts: Proceedings of the Third Conference of Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 18-19 November 1995. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1995.
• al-Rammah, Murad. “The ancient library of Kairouan and its methods of conservation.” Pp 29-47.
• Antiqi, Mahdi. “Problems relating to the treatment of Islamic Manuscripts: Paper.” Pp. 151-156.
• Bedar, Abid Reza. “The preservation of Islamic Manuscripts in India.” Pp. 15-19.
• Bercherifa, Mohamed. “The Restoration f Manuscripts in Morocco.” Pp. 21-27.
• Bish, Tony. “Conservation at the Khalidi Library in the Old City of Jerusalem.” Pp. 49-52.
• de Torres, Amparo R. “Preventive conservation: global trends.” Pf. 185-194.
• Dreibholz, Ursula. “Treatment of Ealrly Islamic manuscript fragments on parchment: case history: the find of Sana’a, Yemen.” Pp. 131-146.
Ibn Badis, Tamim al-Mu`izz. Umdat al-Kuttāb wa ‘Uddat Dhawī al-Albāb (“Book of the Staff of the Scribes and Implements of the Discerning of the Line, the Pens, Soot Inks, Līq, Gall Inks, Dyeing, and Detials of Bookbinding.”) trans. Levey, M. “Medieval Arabic Bookmaking and its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 52(1962).
Irigoin, J. “Les débuts de l’emploi du papier à Byzance.” Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 46(1953):314-319.
Irigoin, J. “Les Types de Formes Utilisés dans l’Orient Mediterraneen (Syrie, Egypte) du xie au xive Siècle.” Papiergeschichte, 13(1963):18-21.
Isacco, Enrico and Josephine Darrah. “The Ultraviolet-Infrared Method of Analysis: A Scientific Approach to the Study of Indian Miniatures.” Artibus Asiae 53. no.3-4 (1993)470-491.
Johnson, B.B. “A Preliminary Study of the Technique of Indian Miniature Painting.” Aspects of Indian Art: Papers Presented in a Symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1970. Pratapaditya Pal, ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. 139-146.
Karabacek, Joseph von. Arab Paper, 1887. Translated by Don Baker and Suzy Dittmar. London: Archetype Publications, 2001.
Koller, Manfred. “Indian Miniatures in the castle of “Schonbrunn” Vienna and the Problems of their Preservation.” Recent Trends in Conservatio of Art Heritage. Shashi Dhawan, ed. Delhi; Agam Kala Prakashan, 1996. 227-239.
Kossak, Steven. Indian Court Painting: 16th – 19th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams Inc., NY, 1997. 3-23
Laurie, A.P. “The Pigments and Medium” A Survey of Persian Art. Arthur U. Pope, ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1939. 1918-1920
Lee, L.R., A. Thompson and V.D. Daniels. “Princes of the House of Timur: Conservation and Examination of an Early Mughal Painting.” Studies in Conservation 42 (1997) 231-240.
Lentz, Thomas W. and Glenn D. Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989.
Loveday, Helen. Islamic Paper. London: Archetype Publications. 2002.
Minorsky, V. Tadhkirat al-mulūk, a Manual of Safavid Administration (circa 1137/1725). E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series, vol. 16. London: Luzac and Co, 1943.
Mishra, Mamta. “Restoration of Three Miniature Paintings with a Problem of Colour Change.” Restoration of Indian Art: some case studies. Ed OP Agrawal Lucknow: INTACH, 1988. Vol. 1. 56-63.
Mishra, Mamta. “Restoration of a Double-Sided Paper Miniature Painting.” Restoration of Indian Art: some case studies. Ed OP Agrawal Lucknow: INTACH, 1988. Vol. 1 64-68.
Merrifield, Mary P. Original treatises, dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth centuries, on the arts of painting in oil, minature, mosaic, and on glass; of gilding, dyeing, and the preparation of colours and artificial gems. London: J. Murray, 1849.
Mohammad, Dust. Preface to the Album of Bahrâm Mirzâ (Hâlât-e honorvarân). ed. Mahdi Bayâni. Ahvâl va âsâr-e khoshnevisân. Tehran: Publications of the University of Tehran, 1345/1966. pp. 188-203.
Ohri, Vishwa Chander. The Technique of Pahari Painting: an inquiry into aspects of materials, methods and history. New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 1-76.
Owen, Antoinette. “Technical Aspects of the Hamzanama Manuscript.” In The Adventures of Hamza: Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India, by John Seyller. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2002. p. 280-284
Pal, Pratapaditya. . “Techniques and Practice”. Court Paintings of India 16th – 19th CenturiesNew York: Navin Kumar, 1983. 13-19.
Porter, Yves. “Un traité de Simi Neyshâpuri, artiste et polygraphe.” Studia Iranica, 14(1985):179-198.
Porter, Yves. Painters, Paintings, and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries. S. Butani, trans. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1994.
Premchand, Neeta. Off the deckle edge: A papermaking journey through India. Bombay: Ankur Project, 1995.
Purinton, Nancy and Mark Watters. “A Study of the materials used by Medieval Persian Painters.” Journal of the American Institute of Conservation 30 (1991) 125-144.
Purinton, Nancy and Richard Newman. “A technical analysis of Indian painting materials.” In Pride of the Princes: Indian Art of the Mughal Era in the Cincinnati Art Museum by Ellen Smart and Daniel S. Walker. Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985.
Qazi Ahmad ibn Mir Munshi al-Husayni. Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qādī Ahmad, son of Mīr-Munsh (circa A.H. 1015/A.D. 1606). trans, V. Minorsky. Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers 3(2). Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1959.
al-Qalqashandi, Ahmad ibn cAlī. (orig. date?) Subh al-acshā. Cairo: al-Qahirah, 1964.
Rashid al-Din Fazl Allah, 1247-1318. Vaqf-nâme-ye rob’-e Rashidi. Eds. I. Afshâr and Mujtaba Minovi. Tehran: Anjuman-i Asar-i Milli, 1972.
Richard, Francis. “Les manuscrits persans d’origine indienne à la Bibliothèque Nationale.” Revue de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 19(1986):30-46.
Sam Mirza, 1517-1576. Tohfe-ye Sâmi. Tehran: Farughi, 1975. pp. 239-249.
Seyller, John. Workshop and Patron in Mughal India. Washington, D.C: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1999.
Seyller, John. "The inspection and valuation of manuscripts in the imperial Mughal library." Artibus Asiae, 1997.
Seyller, John. Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Walters Art Museum Khamsa of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2001.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve. Persian Poetry, Painting, and Patronage: illustrations in a sixteenth-century Masterpiece. Washington, D.C: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1998.
Simpson, Marianna Shreve. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s Haft Awrang. Washington, D.C: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1997.
Snyder, Janet G. “Appendix 10: Study of the Paper of Selected Paintings from the Vever Collection.” An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Glenn Lowry and Milo Cleveland Beech. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1988. 433-440.
Soteriou, Alexandria. Gift of the Conquerors: Hand Papermaking in India. New Jersey: Grantha Corporation, 1999.
Soucek, Priscilla. “Nizami on painters and painting.” Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. R. Ettinghausen. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. p. 9-21
Stevens, Phillip. “The conservation of Indian and Moghul miniatures.” Conservation of library and Archive Materials and the Graphic Arts. Guy Petherbridge. London: Butterworths
Stronge, Susan. Painting for the Mughal Emperor: The Art of the Book 1560-1660. London: V&A Publications, 2002.
Swietochowski, Marie. “Decorative Borders in Mughal Manuscripts”. In The Emperor’s Album: Images of Mughal India. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.
Teflisi, Habish b. Ebrâhim, Bayân al-sanâ`at. ed. Iraj Afshâr. Tehran: University of Tehran, 1336/1957. p. 298-457.
Uniyal, C.P. Biodeterioration of Indian Miniature Paintings- Problems and Prospects. Biodeterioration of Cultural Property: Proceedings of the International Conference February 20-25, 1989, Lucknow, India. Macmillan India Limited. 91-97
Watters, Mark P. Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Persian Miniature Painting: The Materials and Techniques and their Relationship to Style. Unpublished qualifying paper for M.A. in Art History, New York University, 1981.
Weimann, Christopher. “Techniques of marbling in Early Indian Paintings”. Fine Print 9 (1983) 134-137, 164-166.
Welch, Stuart Cary. 1972. A King’s Book of Kings: The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Welch, Stuary Cary. The Houghton Shahnama. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
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