Abstract
In the countries of the Muslim East in the Middle Ages, the art of a manuscript book developed particularly. The creation of the manuscript, which requires valuable materials, painstaking and coordinated work of many masters, turned the book not only into spiritual, but also material value. Therefore, those who ordered it were wealthy people – rulers and the feudal nobility, rich, educated citizens. The main elements of the decoration of the pages of the medieval manuscripts of Iran and Central Asia of the 13-17th centuries were: bookplates, enclosed in multi-petal, multi-beam rosettes – “shams”; unvan-title page, frontispieces (zaravarak) – richly ornamented opening pages, as well as numerous ornamental motifs that adorn the calligraphic text and page margins themselves. Moreover, one of the types of decor was the paper itself, on which the manuscript was rewritten.The article discusses common techniques for decorating manu-script pages, reveals the semantics of their elements.
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