Mahsa Jafari

Book Publication | 2022

I started researching and writing a book titled “Layout of Saadi's Book from the Qajar Era” in 2018 as a result of my M.A. thesis. After I defended my master's thesis in 2015, I decided to expand and complete my research in the field of antique manuscripts. My research was in the field of manuscripts at the National Library of Iran in Tehran. There are sixty copies of Saadi's different books. Among these versions, three selected versions include a variety of lines, a variety of patterns, a variety of colors, and different proportions of framing in the field of book layout. They have different tabulations rulers and end pages that are interesting and can be reviewed. Exploring the page layout is a selection of the manuscripts of Saadi's generalities available in the treasury of the National Library of Iran, and the discovery of their principles and rules can be used in today's art. I dealt with a new topic taken from the manuscripts of the Qajar era so that maybe it can reveal part of the glory and greatness of the valuable heritage of the past in the category of page layout. It took 4 years to research and collect documents observe the original works and compare them. By participating in workshops on manuscripts and manuscript restoration by Professor Hamid Malekian and Dr. Habib Elah Azimi at the National Library of Iran, I tried to complete my information field so that I could write a comprehensive book. I did the layout, cover design, and editing of the book myself. Finally, the book was finished in the summer of 1401 and published by the Khane-ye Honarmandan Publication in Iran with the ISBN/ ISBN 978-622-94300-5-