Oct 15, 2004, 6:37 PM

Exhibition of inscriptions of Hafez poems underway in Tajikistan

TEHRAN, Oct. 15 (MNA) -- A one-week exhibition of inscriptions of ghazal poems of Hafez opened on Friday at the Orientology Institute of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The inscriptions, some of which are over 500 years old, are part of the collection of the Dushanbe Museum.

 

The oldest work on display at the exhibit was inscribed in 1402 and consists of 43 ghazals written on the margin of a copy of the Divan of Hafez. According to the director of the institute, it contains one poem of Hafez not found in any other book.

 

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