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

本项目将通过分析大英图书馆中Nizami的《Khamsa》（Add MS 25900， Or 6810和Or 2265）三幅复制品，探索波斯手稿绘画中微缩的机制和意义。这些手稿涵盖了从15世纪中期到17世纪的“替代页”，并在物理大小和图像风格方面呈现了各种各样的语料库。通过近距离的视觉分析，通过探索绘画规模和尼扎米诗歌之间的共鸣，通过咨询一系列主要文本来源，以及通过将这些绘画置于早期现代波斯更广泛的物质文化背景中，来探索微型绘画的美学和解释性效果。虽然规模的问题已经隐含在现有的学术，这项研究将是第一个持续考虑的主题。

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.