Where are the verses typically placed in manuscript illustrations?

Topmost portion of the painting in a clearly demarcated box-like space

Answer: Topmost portion of the painting in a clearly demarcated box-like space
In manuscript illustrations, verses are typically placed in the topmost portion of the painting within a clearly demarcated box-like space.

A large section of paintings are appropriately referred to as manuscript illustrations as they are pictorial translations of poetic verses from epics and various canonical, literary, bardic or music texts (manuscripts), with verses handwritten on the topmost portion of the painting in clearly demarcated box–like space. Sometimes, one finds the text not in the front but behind the work of art.