Brocade of the Pen

East Lansing, Mich.: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991. Paperback quarto with black covers. xii, 100 pages: illustrations; 23 cm Small barcode sticker to back cover. Very light warping to front cover and mild rubbing to wrapper edges. Else pages clean and binding tight. About near fine(-) to very good+. Binding tight, pages clean. . Paperback. ISBN: 1879147106

Scarce. "Produced in conjunction with an exhibition entitled 'Brocade of the pen' at the Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, February-April, 1991." Contents: Islamic calligraphy: a technical overview / Mohamed Zakariya -- Arabic writing and the occult / Raymond Silverman -- Tiraz fragments: unanswered questions about medieval Islamic textiles / Nancy Micklewright -- Mustafa Ali's Menakib-I Hunververan [Exploits of the calligraphers] / Alan Fisher -- The use of calligraphy on three-dimensional objects: the cae for "magic bowls" / Ulkü Bates -- Text, context, architext: the Quran as architectural inscription / Holly Edwards.