Kitab-i Irani

For many years, Francis Richard (1948) was responsible for the Persian manuscripts in the Oriental collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The author of numerous publications on Persian manuscripts and their tradition and much esteemed among his peers in Iran, this is the Persian translation of Richard's Le livre persan (BnF, 2003), containing the following essays: "e;Le Supplement persan : l'acquisition de manuscrits par le departement des Manuscrits de 1739 a nos jours"e;, "e;La transmission des textes dans le monde iranien : quelques pratiques liees a la culture manuscrite"e;, "e;Un cas de succes litteraire : la diffusion des uvres poetiques de Djami de Herat a travers tout le Proche-Orient"e;, and "e;Le sarlowh ou frontispice enlumine : un decor frequent dans les manuscrits persans."e; In recognition of his great services to Persian studies, part one of a two-volume Persian liber amicorum was published in Tehran in 2005.