Research Catalog

Title

Love and devotion : from Persia and beyond / edited by Susan Scollay.

Publication

Oxford : Bodleian Library ; Melbourne : in association with the State Library of Victoria, 2012.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Scollay, Susan.
• Bodleian Library.
• State Library of Victoria.

Description

xiii, 221 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

Jointly published by Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria in association with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this book accompanies an exhibition of original manuscripts relating to Persian poetry and its milieu to be held at the State Library of Victoria from March 2012.

Alternative Title

Love & devotion

Subjects

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
• Exhibition catalogs
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Manuscripts, Persian > Exhibitions
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian > Exhibitions
• Persian poetry > History and criticism
• Persian poetry > Exhibitions
• Miniature painting, Iranian > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Originally published: South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Art Pub., 2012.
• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of original manuscripts relating to Persian poetry and its milieu, held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Mar. 9-July 1, 2012, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Nov. 29, 2012-Apr. 28, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• An Introduction to Persian Poetry and Its Milieu / Susan Scollay -- Love and Devotion in the Shahnama of Firdausi / Barbara Brend -- Women in the Romances of the Shahnama / Firuza Abdullaeva -- 'Bahram Gur Visits the Lady from Khwarazm in the Blue Pavilion on Wednesday' and Similar Representations from Illustrated Manuscripts by Nizami, Hatifi and Mir 'Ali Shir in the Bodleian Library / Eleanor Sims -- Earthly and Spiritual Love in Sufism: Ibn 'Arabi and the Poetry of Rumi / Suleyman Derin -- The Mystic Poetry of 'Attar and the Conference of the Birds / Rafal Stepien -- Meetings of Lovers: The Bodleian Majalis al-'Ushshaq, MS. Ouseley, Add. 24 / Lâle Uluç -- Dreams, Premonitions and Cosmologies in Persianate Literature / Stefano Carboni -- Images of Love and Devotion: Illustrated Mughal Manuscripts and Albums in the Bodleian Library / Andrew Topsfield -- An Ottoman 'Garden of Love': The Oxford Dilsuznama, the 'Book of Compassion' / Susan Scollay -- The Two Faces of Love: Devotion and Terror in Medieval and Renaissance Europe / Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers -- Romance and Love in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The Squire's Tale and The Parliament of Fowls / Nicholas Perkins -- Imagining Persia: European Travellers' Tales and Their Literary Offspring / Clare Williamson -- A Glance at the History of Romantic Versified Stories in Persian Poetry / Seyed Mohammad Torabi.
• Literary Works, Selected Characters and Summaries of the Major Stories -- Biographies of the Major Persian Poets and Writers -- Timeline -- Map -- Glossary -- List of Illustrations -- Select Bibliography.

Call Number

JFG 16-112

ISBN

• 9781851242788
• 1851242783
• 9781921394508
• 1921394501

LCCN

2013376503

OCLC

788271846

Title

Love and devotion : from Persia and beyond / edited by Susan Scollay.

Imprint

Oxford : Bodleian Library ; Melbourne : in association with the State Library of Victoria, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Scollay, Susan. Editor

Bodleian Library.

State Library of Victoria.

Spine Title

Love & devotion

Research Call Number

JFG 16-112