The Relationship of Texts and Depictions in Uyghur Miniatures and Later Miniature Examples

The basic element of miniature art is presenting the text on the manuscript virtually to the viewer. In this context, miniature is associated with the text. Analyzing the events and the persons that are attempted to be explained or expressed is possible by fully reading and examining the text. The order of creating the manuscript is first writing the text and then producing the miniature painting. Therefore, the page that the miniature will come or the scene to be presented must be specified before the writing phase. In some miniatures, the text continues as a rectangular piece at the top or bottom of the miniature product. Sometimes texts in miniatures appear on the edge of the figure or structure, or as the spelling of the person's names. This is used as a supporter for a better understanding of the subject in the painting, and for the identification of persons or places. The relationship between the text and the miniature in the manuscripts in different eras and geographies had continued until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, that is to say until the ending of the tradition of manuscripts. Our paper is about the analysis of the text-miniature relation in the Uighur Manichaeist manuscripts