Book/Printed Material Collected Poems. Diwan
About this Item
Title
- Collected Poems.
Other Title
- Diwan
Summary
- This manuscript, most likely from the second half of the 19th century, is a collection of poems by the great Persian poet Urfi, who lived and worked in Mughal India in the late 16th century (died 1591), and who was known for his splendid and deeply melancholy qasidas (odes). Urfi had a great influence on the development of poetry in Turkey and throughout the Ottoman Empire. 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 563in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).
Names
- ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad, 1555/6-1590/91 Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1850 to 1900]
Headings
- - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- - 1580 to 1590
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Memory of the World
- - Persian poetry
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 24 x 16 centimeters; black ink; 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
- 2021667596
Online Format
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