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Review | Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond. Reviewed by Adam Bushby

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Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond Reviewed by Adam Bushby Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, State Library of Victoria, Keith Murdoch Gallery, until 1 July 2012. Illustrated manuscripts from Persia, Ottoman Turkey and Mughal India are rare treats in Melbourne. Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond presents a modest but varied collection of manuscripts drawn mostly from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, covering the period between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. The subject matter is both profane and sacred, familiar secular stories such as One…

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Exhibition | Opening Day for ‘Love and Devotion: from Persia and Beyond’

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Conference of the birds (detail), from ʿAttar, Mantiq al-Tayr, 1493 Courtesy of Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Via the State Library of Victoria website.

Opening day celebration: Love and devotion Date: Friday 9 March 2012, 11:00am - 4:00pm Venue: Experimedia, State Library of Victoria via main entry, Swanston St Free and open to the public The State Library of Victoria is running a special day of activities to mark the opening of the exhibition Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond. The free exhibition Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond (9 March–1 July 2012) celebrates the beauty of Persian manuscripts and the stories of human and divine love told through their pages from the early…

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Conference - Love and Devotion: Persian Cultural Crossroads - State Library of Victoria

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A royal picnic (detail), from ʿAttar, Intikhab-i Hadiqa, c 1575 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Canonici Or. 122, fol. 4v

Love and Devotion: Persian Cultural Crossroads State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 12–14 April 2012 A conference presented by The State Library of Victoria in partnership with Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford This cross-disciplinary conference will explore cultural convergences in literature, art and architecture, history and philosophy from the time of Firdausi in the early 11th century to the present day, within the various Persian empires, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India and Europe. The two-day conference coincides with a major exhibition at the State Library of Victoria, Love and Devotion: From Persia…

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