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Iran to unveil copy of oldest Hafez manuscripts

The priceless treasure was discovered by Iranian scholar Ali Ferdowsi and will be unveiled during a ceremony at Niavaran Cultural Center on January 26.

The collection is published by Dibayeh Publications and contains 49 ghazals and a single couplet along with a comparative study by scholar Ferdowsi.

The original manuscript was inscribed by a contemporary named Ala Marandi during the years 1388 and 1389. All the ghazals (probably except five) were penned during the time Hafez was alive.

The oldest manuscripts discovered prior to this date back to the years 1400 and 1402, but with this finding, the wishes of Hafez experts to find copies that were inscribed during the lifetime of Hafez has finally came true...
Read entire article at Tehran Times