ConstantSide: aMethodintheIllustrationsofKhavaran-Nameh

Khavaran-Nameh, is a book of poetry written by Ibn-e-Hessam, which is illustratedby Farhad, the painter from Shiraz, in the late 9th/15th century. The illustrationsbelong to Shiraz school of the Torkaman Period. This book inclues systematictabling and precise mathematical proportions. The poet, the illustrator and thetabulator (jadval kesh) have worked together in harmony. The sides of the framesof the illustrations have a constant proportion in all illustrations and in some, theframes are broken or zigzaged (pelle ie). In addition to demonstrate. the generalprinciples of drawing the tables and frames of the illustrations, this study seeksto explore the reason of breaking the frames, for the reason of strict geometricalprinciples, the frames of the illustrations seem to have changed when the illustratorrecommended it. Some of the key concepts to which this study pays specialattention are the unchanging, constant length of one side in all of the illustrationsin Khavaran-Nameh.