One Vessel, Many Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in a Fourteenth-Century Persian Manuscript and the Enduring Memory of a Sacred Mountain
The miniature depicting Noah's Ark (MSS 727, folio 45a) belongs to the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh ("Compendium of Chronicles"), the monumental universal history commissioned by the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din Fadlallah (c. 1247–1318). The manuscript was produced in Tabriz between 1305 and
Chinese dragons and heavenly dogs in the Armenian medieval manuscript
The elements perceived as emanating from Chinese art, such as “heavenly dogs”, “phoenix” and“dragon” motifs, made their appearance in Armenian manuscript illuminations in the second half ofthe thirteenth century. The context was royal Armenian patronage in the kingdom of Cilician
