The study of Illustritive specification of Guy-O-Chawgan (Polo playing) Mathnavi

Subject of this paper is study of image traits of four pictures by subject of Guy and Chawgan. Which has related to prescriptions of Guy and Chawgan Mathnavi that it is composed by Heravi poem of Teymuri date. Subject of this poem is description of love a simple man to a prince that he is reputed to racing and Chawgan game. There is beautiful image of Chawgan playing of prince in Mathnavi. In reason of importance and grace of Chawgan game¡Iranian painters always are attended to that and illustrated it mentioned in the ancient Farsi lectures. There are few manuscripts of Guy-o-Chawgan in the Iran and other countries libraries. Subject of this study are four pictures. Which are related to manuscript that is kept in Amitazh museum in Russia. It has illustrated in 1525 in Tabriz style of Safavid period. The last picture has founded in library of golestan palace and unfortunately only this illustrated manuscript of Guy and Chawgan Mathnavi is remained in Iran that has illustrated in Tabriz style of Safavid period. This paper comes from part of research conclusions of study with the title «Traits of Guy and Chawgan Images» that has introduced the different manuscripts of Mathnavi. It has evaluated the purport¡technology of paint¡structure and relation between text and picture. Results of this study shows that the number of figures in the images are. Specially increased in Tabriz style of Safavid period. Other result shows that the vertical symbols and screening are simple and somewhere artists has breaking the structures. The colors are variety and shiny. Gray colors have used in the background, One of the important matters is that the painters did not pay attention to relation between subject and pictures.