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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…

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

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…

News | State Library of Victoria Launches Appeal to Purchase Persian Manuscripts

Layla and Majnun Faint on Meeting, from Nizami, Khamsa, 1509–10 State Library of Victoria, RARESF 091 N65K, fol. 170v  After being forbidden to marry his beloved Layla, Majnun retreats to the wilderness, where he has only wild animals for company. Attempts to arrange a rendezvous between the pair are generally unsuccessful because Majnun faints at the sight of Layla. In the episode shown here, both faint in each other’s presence.

State Library of Victoria Launches Appeal to Purchase Rare Persian Manuscripts A public appeal has been launched to raise $100,000 to purchase two Persian manuscripts for the Rare Book Collection at the State Library of Victoria. The State Library of Victoria Foundation has launched the appeal to help purchase two items: a 16th-century manuscript copy of the Khamsa or quintet of classic Persian stories written by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami of Ganja; and a 19th-century manuscript copy of the Tutinama or ‘Book of the parrot’. The Khamsa manuscript was…

Volunteer Opportunity at State Library exhibition - Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond

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Volunteer Opportunity at Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond The State Library of Victoria is seeking volunteers to help it stage the largest exhibition of illustrated Persian manuscripts in Australia’s history. Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, an exhibition developed by the State Library of Victoria in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, will feature more than 60 rare Persian, Mughal Indian and Ottoman Turkish illustrated manuscripts from the 13th to 18th century – stunning works that come from one of the richest periods in the history…

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

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…