Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 5

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Main 8080 || trol in Herat. || of Manhood” and “The Benefits of || with the name of Allah—"Bism-el-Al- |{lah"—was to serve dally to remind its - None Sold to Dealers Because we want more people to know about liberal Charge Plan, offer these genuine ‘astman Kodaks at a i never before equaled! pact, folding models take 24xd%-inch pictures and are 1ipped with rapid lense ball - bearing shutter, 407 7th St. AMERICAS LARGEST CREDIT JEWELRY CRGANIZATION ——~ -~ e NN RN /] LIBRARY RECEIVES Cotemporary Copy of Divan | Is Gift of Kirkor Minas- sian of New York. Presentation of & cotemporary copy of the “Divan” of the Persian poet, Mir | All Shir, by Kirkor Minassian of New | York, announced yesterday by the Li- | brary of Congress, adds to the library another important manuscript volume in the Oriental collection bearing Mr. Minassian’s name. The volume, & handsome one, un- | usually well preserved, is written in the Shikasteh Nagtalig style of the Persian caligraphy. The text is bordered with rations in the same colors. The name of the copyist s not known, but it has been suggested that he was the Sultan | Al Merhadi, said to have excelled all other penmen in writing the Nastaliq characters and every day to have copled 20 couplets for Mir Ali Shir. Flourished in Fifteenth Century. Mir Ali Shir, the school fellow of Sultan Russayn Mirza of the Timurial dynasty and later his minister, flour- ished during the latter half of the fif- | teenth century. His talents were many | and diverse. He was one of the most | | distinguished and most fertile writers | of his time, both in prose and poetry, {and, besides, was a painter, sculptor, | composer of music, illuminator of man- uscripts, expert calligrapher, advisor to | the Sultan and a patron of learning. | With his name are associated those of | the painters Bihzed and Shah Muzaffar, | | the musicians Qul-Muhammad, Shaykhi | Nai and Husayn Udi; that of the his- torian Mirkhwand and of the poet Jami. Mir All Shir is’said to have been ad- mitted by Jaml into the Nasqshbandi sect of dervishes, and that so complete was his devotion to plous works that he established, or restored, and endowed | 370 mosques, colleges and other insti- futions in Khurasan alone. That province, and especlally the City of Herat, now in medern Afghan- | istan, shone at this enoch with great | brilliancy. ere, Mir Ali Shir dwelled. | one of its brightest lights, until his | death in 1501. | In 1506, Sultan Husayn, himself a | poet and & patron of learning, also died, and the marvelous era that Herat had known ended with him. Two of the | Mirzas succeeded the sultan, reigning | Jointly. Babur quotes from Sadi to de- scribe the situation: “Ten dervishes can sleep on one rug, but the same climate cannot contain two kings.” In a short time, Shah Ismail, founder of the Safawl dynasty, was in supreme con- 10,000 Couplets in Divan. ‘Through Mr. Minassian’s action, the National Library is now in possession of an original manuscript produced at Herat during the period of its ancient glory, a period which embraces the years of the voyages of Columbus. The Divan of Mir Ali 8hir is written in the | Chaghatay Turki, which, through the | genius of the poet, was elevated to the height of a literary language. There are 10,000 couplets in the poem, which is divided into four ghazels, or odes, entitled: “The Singularities of Infancy, “The Wonders of Youth.” “The Marvels Age.’ With this manuscript, Mr. Minassian has also presented to the National Li-y brary several specimens of hand 1l- luminated initial letters, and an llum- |inated passage from the Koran, tran- scribed 159 years ago, which, beginning possessor of the word that should guide him through life, and which, at death, should take him into heaven. LEADERS ARE APPOINTED FOR HEALTH COMMITTEE ‘Wallace Hatch Will Be Assisted by Miss Gertrude Bowling as Vice Chairman. Wallace Hatch has been named chair- man and Miss Gertrude Bowling, vice chairman, of the public health com- mittee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, one of the oldest standing committees of the trade body, it was | announced yesterday by Charles W. Darr, president. Chairman Hatch has called a meeting of the committee for Tuesday noon, in the offices of the chamber in the Homer Bullding, when the program of work for the ensuing year will be outlined. Serving on the committee with Mr. |H-wh and Miss Bowling are Dr. Ber. |nard A. Baer, Dr. Harry Bosley, M. O. | Chance, Dr. A. C. Christle, Allan Davis, | John B. Dickman, Rev. George W. Dow Lewis Flemer, Willard Goldheim, Dr. {8. Lewis, Miss Mary A. Lindsle rs. Harriet Hawley Locher, Robert Nll‘lr- shall, Mrs. Pauline MacMillan, John M. McLachlen, Harold F. Pellegrin, Meredith H. Polen, Dr. C. Jabel Rob- llfl]:g;l};LMg‘l‘ E’l;:lbeth P. Sheppard, . Slye, Mrs, Viry W. M. Stewart, 3d; 7T TaviosPea Prussia Buys Noted Mountain, WERNIGERODE, Germany (), { Brocken Mountain, highest ot tpe e Mountains and famous for the “Brocken scene” in Goethe's “Faust,” is to pe purchased by Prussia so that the lang around its base may be developed as lt:;;leldllr;g‘lkllus. 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