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In the shadow of the "Red Fuji". Bayerische Staatsbibliothek acquires a further main work of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

Coloured woodblock print "Red Fuji" from the series "36 views of Mount Fuji" by Katsushika Hokusai, 1830/31 | © BSB/Res/4 L.jap. K 405

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek could again expand its Japanese collection by an outstanding work by Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849). The new acquisition is the famous coloured woodblock print "South wind, clear sky", better known as "Red Fuji".

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Persian manuscripts of the State Libraries of Berlin and Munich entered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register

Beginning of text with the headline "The Masnawi in Persian" | © BSB/Cod.pers. 45 (sheet 1v)

Two important manuscripts by the Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273) have been entered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. The two works – from the holdings of the State Library of Berlin and of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – form part of a joint application encompassing a total of 15 manuscripts, which was filed by six countries under the lead of the Turkish UNESCO Commission.

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