Purpose: The present research aims at studying the use of metadata standards in Persian manuscripts databases, and the types and frequencies of these standards in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) procedure of these databases. Methodology: Research population consists of four Persian databases and 12 Latin databases. The research data is gathered through a checklist, using descriptive su...

This research compares the common illustrated themes in manuscripts from Ilkhanid and Timurid periods. In general, the themes in Iranian painting are divided into seven categories of history, religion, animals, epic, lyrical love, realism, decoration, in which the themes of history, religion, animals and epic have more commons in both periods. In this research, only these four themes and the re...

Purpose: Manuscripts, which are considered to be the cultural, scientific and artistic heritage of nations, are important from three aspects of cultural, scientific and artistic, and are considered to be signs of cultural power and scientific development of every country and region. In Iran, most of the manuscripts are in a few cities with a rich civilization history, science and culture, one o...

Many literatures have been published about decorative motif and the colors used in these motifs in manuscripts. These studies can be suitable sources for more information about such decorations; still more accurate studies are necessary in the field of identifying the applied pigments in order to have a better understanding of historical objects. The applications of gold in decorative motif of ...

  Abstract After Mongol invasion into Iranian plateau new cultural elements entered by the invaders which influenced on some aspects of Persian book art. Uighur script which first was used to write Mongol and then eastern Turkish languages, appeared in Persian Manuscripts which were produced for Timurid governors and some of famous works are remained from Yazd, Herat, Guilan and Shiraz. These...

AbstractObjectives:  The present study was designed to trace the literature related to the history of psychopathology and mental health in Middle Persian manuscripts. Method: The method consisted of library research into the hand written manuscripts and the collection of Middle Persian (Pahlavi) texts dating back to some fifteen hundred years ago. Findings: The frequency of the term ravan (psyc...