Publisher's Synopsis
In 1975 the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum was fortunate enough to receive a bequest consisting of the unique negative collection of Professor Creswell, the eminent pioneer of medieval Islamic architectural history. Among the photographs are many of those used to illustrate the two publications which remain the basic research tools for scholars of medieval Islamic architecture Creswell's Early Muslim Architecture and Muslim Architecture of Egypt. The collection also includes a large number of photographs intended for a third volume of Muslim Architecture of Egypt, which was to deal with the monuments of the Burji Mamluk period. Since this project remained unfinished at the time of Creswell's death, the bulk of these are unpublished. Over the past decades the Ashmolean Museum has undertaken the printing, identification and digitisation of the Creswell Archive with the aim of making this exceptional collection available to a wider audience. This CD-ROM features a database programme containing 6523 images taken by K A C Creswell, together with a textual description of each image. The database can be sorted, searched, and saved in sets. Images and text can be printed from this database.
