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Book/Printed Material The Rose Garden.

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Title

  • The Rose Garden.

Summary

  • The Persian poet and scholar Muṣliḥ ud-Dīn Sadī Shīrāzī (circa 1213-1292) is known primarily as the author of Gulistan (The rose garden), one of the great masterpieces of Persian literature, which he completed in 1259. The work has a didactic and ethical character, and is still widely read, in the original Persian and in translations in many languages. This manuscript copy is written in the ta'liq script in two different hands, and contains numerous explanations and remarks in the margins and in the text. The manuscript is dated 1585 (993 A.H.). The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 586 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).

Names

  • Saʻdī Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1585.

Headings

  • -  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • -  1259
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Persian literature
  • -  Persian manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 24.5 x 16 centimeters ; black and red ink, text framed in blue; semi-leather hardcover.
  • -  Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
  • -  Content in Persian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667595

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

SaʻDī Author. The Rose Garden. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1585] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667595/.

APA citation style:

SaʻDī Author. (1585) The Rose Garden. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667595/.

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SaʻDī Author. The Rose Garden. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1585] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667595/>.