The connection between text and image with Roland Barthes’s view in illustrated pages of the Miscellany of Iskandar Sultan, Baysonghor Shahnameh and Muhammad Juki’s Shahnameh

Roland Barthes, the French structuralist theorist, proposes three theories based on the interactive relationship between the textual component and the image component: "descriptive" communication, "matched" communication, and "reference" communication. Barthes claims that these three patterns apply to all existing books and manuscripts. In this study, three theories mentioned in the illustrated manuscripts of Golchin Eskandar Sultan, Shahnameh of Baysanghari and Shahnameh of Mohammad Jouki from the Timurid period are studied. The purpose of this study, in addition to explaining and discovering the page layout pattern of this version, is to recognize the relationship between text and image based on Roland Barthes theory, to answer the question of how the connection between text and image based on Roland Barthes theory in this Three versions defined? And it is inferred that in all cases of research, the text box and the image box are present and the failure in the box is clearly visible in half of the cases. The title exists in half of the research cases and is included in the text, which is closely related to the text. The dominant element on the page is the "image", and in most cases of research, the title is placed in the text, and in half of the cases of research, failure is seen in the box. Although in all cases the image is centered on the page, in half of the cases there is a "reference" connection based on Barthes's theory, but in the other half the case, the connection is "identical". This research has been done by descriptive-analytical method and library collection method.