Along with the tomb of Rumi itself, the building also had a collection of ancient texts.
It is me. Of course I took pictures of them.
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| A copy of the Mesnevi, A.D 1278., Seljuk. This was written within 5 years of his death. |
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| Koran. 15th Century A.D., Ottoman. |
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| Koran. A.D. 1296, Seljuk. |
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| Koran, A.D. 1314, Karamanid |
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| Koran, 9th Century A.D. Written on gazelle skin. |
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| A book of collected poems of Hafix-I Sirazi. 16th Century A.D., Ottoman. |
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| Subhat-ul Ebrar, A.D. 1492. Ottoman |
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| Subhat-ul Ebrar, A.D. 1492. Ottoman |
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| Miniscule Koran, 16th Century A.D. Ottoman. |
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| Miniscule Koran, 16th Century A.D. Ottoman. |
What treasures. It's amazing how much care and effort used to be put into illuminating books. I knew European monks used to do it for the Bible. It's interesting to discover Muslims also did it for the Koran.
ReplyDeleteLeigh, I think all major religions did so for their texts (minor ones too, probably). The amount of effort and craft that went into each of these is amazing. At hand copying - and calligraphic hand copying at that - one can understand why books overall, but especially books such as these, were both rare and expensive.
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