ANADOLU SELÇUKLU VE BU ÜSLÛBU TAŞIYAN CİLDLERDE ZENCİREK TİPOLOJİSİ DENEMESİ

An Attempt of Zencirek Typology in Anatolian Seljuqids’ Bookbindings and Ones with the Same Style

Anatolian Seljuqids, as one of the important periods of Turkish history and civilization, have left great works in the field of bookbinding as in other fields of art. Bookbinding Art of Anatolian Seljuqid has begun in the 12th century and lasted to the first quarter of 14th century. Meanwhile, it had impacts on the Mamlukids, Ilkhanids and Qaramanids too. One of the sections on the covers of bookbinding is zencirek (bordur). In this article, it has been presented the typology of zencirek which we could have found out so far. It will be definitely added new ones to the twenty seven types of zencirek through the new researches on the topic