Indicate the story, narrative, theme, or event on which you have chosen to focus
• Provide the appropriate information for the manuscript or folios (date and place of
production, patrons and artists if known, materials, current collection and
accession/catalogue number)
• Describe, in detail, the visual narratives (consider characters, setting, colour, line,
frame, composition, pattern, architecture, clothing, animals, what is happening,
labels, etc.)
• Relate the specific visual narratives to the story/text
• Relate the story and visual narratives to historical context (including religion and
artistic production as aspects of history) as understood through the course
materials
• Compare the visual narratives/paintings to those in another manuscript or story,
or to other paintings from the same story/manuscript and discuss whether there
appears to be set iconography (ie., a way that the story is clear to us from the
way it is presented; an example is the Prophet Muhammad surrounded by
angels, rising into the heavens on Burak = the Miraj) or whether different artists
and workshops have made other choices
• Consider why the stories that are chosen for book production change or stay
consistent over time, why illustrated events and episodes change or stay
consistent, and why depictions and compositions change or stay consistent
• Consider how the intended audience/readership contributes to subject matter,
artistic style, materials, and other features in historical context
