TIEM No. in Siyer-i Nebî with inventory, 1974 analysis of female figures

Siyer-i Nebî, which was prepared in the Nakkâşhane of Topkapı Palace by order of Murad III in the 16th century and completed during the reign of Mehmed III, is an important manuscript that describes the life of Prophet Muhammad in detail. The work, which consists of six volumes, is available in various libraries except the fifth volume. In this study, while analyzing the style of the miniatures, the political and cultural developments of the period are described in the first chapter, followed by information on the artistic environment of that period. The work with the inventory number TİEM nr.1974, which is an exact copy of the original fourth volume in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, with 193 miniatures, is analyzed. There are 39 miniatures on the subject of "Analysis of Female Figures" that we examined in this study. In this volume, depictions of the stories of female characters are abundant. In the fifth part of our study, the design, composition and figure constructions of the miniatures were analyzed. The analyses were made in order to obtain information on the methods applied by the painters during the design process. Keywords: Miniature, Hz. Muhammed, Hz. Fâtima, 16th century, Siyer-i Nabî.