The aesthetics of the lithography of “Rozatol-Mujahedin / Mokhtarnama” at Tabriz Library

Investigating the valuable Iranian artistic works has helped significantly in identification of the Iranian art features in different historical periods. Lithography books have been gained publicity in Iran as the valuable Iranian artistic works after manuscripts that they will aid us in identification of the ideology of the people in this territory and artistic features of historical periods. This research introduces and examined the lithographic book of Rozatol Mujahedin at Tabriz Library in order to specify the content and structural characteristics of the lithographic books. It can be said that among numerous lithographic books at Tabriz Central Library and according to the importance of the subject and quality of the works, Rozatol- Mujahedin / Mokhtarnama in date 1306 hegira with religious subjects was chosen and investigated. In this book, the images visual details have been expressed by observing the principles ruling on the lithographic books such as common elements in drawing the lithographic books images including handwringing and hachure and etc. Thus, each image represents the mentioned subject individually. The multiplicity of the images and their elegant and detailed drawings on one hand and conformity of the text to the images of the book on the other hand have placed this book in the rank of the best examples of remained lithographic books, so it is important in terms of visualization(aesthetics) and content.
Goals
1- Identification of the structural and aesthetic features of the lithographic books
2- Identification and conformity of the structural and aesthetic features of the
lithographic books in Qajar period with Mokhtarnameh lithographic book
aesthetic features
Questions
1- What aesthetic and structural features of lithographic books in Qajar period are conformed to the case study of Mokhtarnameh?
2- What are the common qualitative and stylistic features with other samples of lithographic books in Qajar period?