Persian Poetry Manuscript Preserved At Kutaisi State Historical Museum

Abstract

The subject matter of the article is the collections of Persian manuscript poems in Georgia and the review of the only collection of Persian lyrics preserved in the Kutaisi Museum, containing poems by Hafez, Saad, and others.

The number of pages of the manuscript is 147 sheets, size - 7X14, material - gold-plated paper, cover - black leather, represented by Hussein Zade in 1929, copied by one of Nastalik’s beautiful calligraphy.

The Persian-language manuscripts in Georgia are striking in their abundance and diversity, most of them are Iranian Shahat firms and other documents, which are preserved and researched. But we cannot say the same about lyrical collections which seem very interesting for scholars in many ways, including the one kept in Kutaisi.

From the 29 manuscript collections of Georgian lyric poems available in Georgia, 26 are works of individual authors, and three represent collections of poems by various authors.

The Kutaisi manuscript is among the top three collections. It is also included in the top three works with gold plated sheets.

The collection of interest to us is undoubtedly one of the valuable documents reflecting centuries-old Georgian-Iranian cultural relations that, in many respects, are the subject of interest to scholars.