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70 Manuscripts of Great Female Poet Ganjavi to be Brought to Azerbaijan

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Mahsati Ganjavi

About 70 unique manuscripts by great Azerbaijani female poet Mahsati Ganjavi will be brought to Azerbaijan from world libraries next week, an official of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences’ department in Ganja has said. Samir Pishnamazzade, Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs of the department, told the local press that up to 70 miniatures, illustrations and rubais date back to the 14th and 15th centuries. The masterpieces, kept in Egypt’s Library of Alexandria, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University in the United States, will be delivered by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, which is based in Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second largest city.

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