'This Splitting of a Hair': The Magic of Miniaturisation in Timurid and Safavid Manuscripts of Nizami's Khamsa at the British Library

这个项目将通过分析大英图书馆收藏的三本尼扎米的《康萨》，探索波斯手稿绘画小型化的机制和意义：添加MS 25900，或6810，或2265。这些手稿涵盖了从15世纪中叶到17世纪“换页”的一段时间，并在物理尺寸和绘画风格方面呈现了不同的语料库。通过仔细的视觉分析，通过探索画幅和尼扎米诗歌之间的共鸣，通过查阅一系列主要的文本来源，并将这些绘画置于早期现代波斯更广泛的物质文化的背景下，来探索微型绘画的审美和阐释效果。尽管规模问题一直隐含在现有的学术研究中，但这项研究将是对这一主题的第一次持续考虑。

This project would explore the mechanisms and meanings of miniaturisation in Persian manuscript painting, through the analysis of three copies of Nizami's Khamsa in the British Library: Add MS 25900, Or 6810, and Or 2265. These manuscripts cover a period stretching from the mid-15th century to 17th century 'replacement pages' and present a varied corpus in terms of physical size and pictorial style. The aesthetic and interpretative effects of the miniature would be explored through close visual analysis, by exploring the resonance between pictorial scale and Nizami's poetry, by consulting a range of primary textual sources and by situating these paintings in the context of the wider material culture of Early Modern Persia. Although questions of scale have been implicit in existing scholarship, this research would be the first sustained consideration of the subject.