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A lady offers a cool drink to the poet Sa'di, from Prince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan) by Sa`di
A lady offers a cool drink to the poet, from Prince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan) by Sa`di. The poet recalled an extremely hot day in his youth, when he was walking down a street at noon, thirsty and weak. A beautiful woman came out of a house, and handed him an iced drink. Refreshed from his physical thirst, he found himself longing instead for the kind stranger.
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- Manuscript
- manuscripts (documents)
Type of item
- Manuscript
- manuscripts (documents)
Providing institution
- Chester Beatty Library
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Identifier
- 256
- Per 119.36
Extent
- 249 mm x 152 mm (height x width)
Language
- fas
- Persian
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- Persian collection
Providing country
- Ireland
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First time published on Europeana
- 2024-04-12T17:35:04.044Z
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- 2024-04-23T10:14:21.451Z