HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MANUSCRIPT PRODUCTION DURING THE REIGN OF AMIR TIMUR
The article examines XX–XXI century scholarship on manuscript production during the reign of Amir Timur. Written testimonies, the manuscript tradition of Nizam al-Din Shami’s Zafarnama, studies of the artistic environment of Samarkand, and the material foundations of book production are compared. Historiographical, historical-comparative, source-critical, codicological, and provenance methods are employed. The analysis identifies a methodological shift from cataloguing and stylistic attribution toward interregional exchange, mobility of craftsmen, manuscript materiality, and verification of attribution. Timurid Samarkand is interpreted not as a transplanted ready-made school, but as an environment formed through the interaction and transformation of the manuscript traditions of Transoxiana, Iran, and Iraq.
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