Intertextual Animals: Illustrated KalÄ«la wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498143_005

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This article seeks to situate early Arabic illustrated Kalila wa Dimna manuscripts with regard to both text and image, and to position them within the broader context of thirteenth and fourteenth century Arab painting. The transmission of the various narratives making up the text is traced, from South Asian origins through Persia and on to its various later translations, pre-eminent among them the version by Ibn al-MuqaffaÊ¿. A similar proliferation of visual representations is also discussed, from eighth-century Panjikent to fifteenth-century Italy. Emphasis is placed upon the dramatic relationship between image and text as the tale unfolds. The use of fixed forms of representation may, it is suggested, shed light on their function in illustrating the ultimately oral fable form that lies behind Ibn al-MuqaffaÊ¿âs highly literary verbal dexterity. In considering the earliest illustrated Arabic manuscripts, account is taken of their potential readership and what this tells us about patterns of patronage and production. Reference is also made to the emergence of innovative techniques of visual narrative in later manuscripts.

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Cet article cherche Ã situer les premiers manuscrits arabes illustrÃ©s de Kalila wa Dimna en examinant Ã la fois le texte et les images, et Ã les replacer dans le contexte plus large de la peinture arabe des XIII^e et XIV^e s. Il retrace la transmission des diffÃ©rents rÃ©cits qui composent le texte, depuis leurs origines sud-asiatiques Ã travers la Perse et jusquâaux diverses traductions ultÃ©rieures, parmi elles la cÃ©lÃ¨bre version dâIbn al-MuqaffaÊ¿. Lâarticle examine aussi la prolifÃ©ration similaire de reprÃ©sentations visuelles, du Pendjikent du VIII^e s. Ã lâItalie du XV^e s., en insistant sur la relation dramatique entre lâimage et le texte au cours du rÃ©cit. Le choix des formes fixes de reprÃ©sentation peut Ã©clairer leur fonction en illustrant la fable, cette forme fondamentalement orale, qui se cache derriÃ¨re la dextÃ©ritÃ© verbale extrÃªmement littÃ©raire dâIbn al-MuqaffaÊ¿. En considÃ©rant les premiers manuscrits arabes illustrÃ©s, lâarticle prend en compte les lecteurs potentiels et ce que nous pouvons en dÃ©duire concernant les modes de mÃ©cÃ©nat et de production. Lâarticle Ã©voque Ã©galement lâÃ©mergence de techniques innovantes de narration visuelle dans les manuscrits plus tardifs.

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Les pÃ©riples de Kalila et Dimna: Quand les fables voyagent dans la littÃ©rature et les arts du monde islamique

The Journeys of Kalila and Dimna: Fables in the Literature and Arts of the Islamic World

Series:Â Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume: 42

Cover Les pÃ©riples de Kalila et Dimna: Quand les fables voyagent dans la littÃ©rature et les arts du monde islamique

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Jan 2022

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Partie 1 Textes et paratextes / Texts and Paratexts

Partie 2 Questions de filiation / Questions of Filiation

Partie 3 Construire lâimage / Building the Image

Partie 4 Adaptations orientales / Oriental Adaptations

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