A New Interpretation of Some Drawings from the Hazine (Istanbul) and Diez (Berlin) Albums Illustrati...

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" A New Interpretation of Some Drawings from the Hazine (Istanbul) and Diez (Berlin) Albums Illustrating the Tortoise and the Heron (or Crane) "
Maria Vittoria Fontana

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1064381
Doc. No	:	LA108010
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24685631-12340075‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Maria Vittoria Fontana
Title & Author	:	A New Interpretation of Some Drawings from the Hazine (Istanbul) and Diez (Berlin) Albums Illustrating the Tortoise and the Heron (or Crane) [Article]\ Maria Vittoria Fontana
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Annali Sezione Orientale
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	79/1-2
Page No	:	157–179
Abstract	:	Nine ink drawings on as many pages—seven preserved at the Topkapı Sarayı Library in Istanbul (from H. 2152, 2153, and 2160) and two at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin (from the Diez Albums), respectively—illustrate a tortoise apparently fighting with one or two herons (or cranes). Instead, a narrative context is suggested herein, dating back to the Indian oral literature, which derives from the Chinese one, and later encountering the Pañcatantra and the Islamic versions narrating the tale of the tortoise and the two geese, thus in some cases producing an iconographic-narrative synthesis of the two traditions. If the hypothesis is correct and the drawings actually do depict such a scene, the fact that the images follow a version of the tale that was little known in the Islamic world but probably more widespread in the Eastern world could contribute to the attribution of the drawings, as the bird species depicted—typical of central and southern Asia—would seem to confirm.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Diez Albums (Berlin)
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Hazine Albums (Istanbul)
Descriptor	:	Jātaka and Pañcatantra tales
Descriptor	:	Kalīla wa Dimna
Descriptor	:	tortoise and heron (or crane)
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24685631-12340075‬