Monday, July 18, 2011

Virtual Collection of Persian Manuscripts


Characteristics of the collection from the National Library of the Czech Republic
The Collection of Persian manuscripts has a great variety as to contents, but the volumes containing poetry are prevalent. We can find here collections of poetry (Díwáns) by many Persian authors, both the famous ones and the less-known poets whose names cannot be found in classical overviews of Persian literature. Furthermore, it contains anthologies of Persian poetry, literary biographies (Ádhar), and papers or letters (munsha'át) by famous Persian authors. Moreover we can find here volumes containing the classical works of Sufi literature, tadhkiras (stories from the lives of poets), and prose. Several volumes also represent philosophy, logic, geography, and geomansy. There are a great number of historiographic, astronomical and medical treatises and compendia. Some volumes with religious contents are not missing as well. Under the shelf number XVIII B we can also find several manuscripts at least partially written in Turkish - these are commentaries on Persian literary works (Sa'dí), Persian-Turkish dictionaries, and Persian poetry by Turkish authors. There are also three volumes containing the poetry of Hilálí, representing the Tajik literature, and volumes containing the literary work of the minister of the Mughal emperor Akbar Abu'l-Fazl b. Shaikh Mubárak 'Allámí (two volumes of letters and Akbarnáme).

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