HÜSREV VE ŞİRİN MİNYATÜRLERİNDE ŞİRİN’E HÜSREV’İN RESMİNİN GÖSTERİLME SAHNELERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME
AN EVALUATION OF SCENES IN WHICH SHIRIN IS SHOWN THE PORTRAIT OF KHUSRAW IN THE MINIATURES OF KHUSRAW AND SHIRIN

Summary/Abstract: The "Khosrow and Shirin" masnavi is a beloved story found within Nizami Ganjavi's "Khamsa of Nizami" and holds a significant place among love-masnavis. Our study is composed of selected works from the illustrated 15th-century Nizami Khamsas found in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library. These are the Nizami Khamsas numbered B.146, H.759, H.761, H.771, H.774, H.778, H.792, and R.866. The miniatures we selected from these works depict the topic of Shapur's journey to Armenia to ask for Shirin. These miniatures have been meticulously examined, and their compositional structures have been technically analyzed. The article briefly discusses the cultural and artistic environment of the Timurid and Turkoman periods in the 15th century and how it is reflected in miniature art. It provides brief informations about Nizami Ganjavi and his Nizami Khamsa. The "Khosrow and Shirin" masnavi is described, followed by a discussion of the story depicted in the selected miniature. Each miniature portraying the same story in the manuscripts has been examined in detail, and the similarities and differences between these pages have been observed. The miniatures have also been examined in terms of depicting the social and cultural life of the period, technically analyzed, and introduced with detailed descriptions. The story has been provided from the Turkish text of the work, and although not too detailed, references have been mentioned.

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