Artists, those who made pictures, played a big role in writing the manuscripts. In the Chronicles along with descriptions of things, pictures were also included. They gave a visual picture of things. The manuscript writer left the following page blank if he felt there was a need for a picture to illustrate the matter. In these blank spaces, artists drew pictures. These pictures were small in size and so they were called ‘miniatures’.
The pictures in the manuscripts increased their beauty and utility.
They showed things in a visual manner of things that would be difficult to describe using words, they give a good picture of the country and the power of the rulers.
