Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Sa'di, Shírázi. [Gulistán: Persian text], 1 vol., ([before 1890 Oct.]). Kirkpatrick Catalogue: 2550
- Description
Note: inscribed to Richard Burton by John Lentaigne, Aug. 22, 1870. Significant amount of insect damage; leather binding damaged and fragile -- please handle carefully.
- Production date
- 1842-1947.
- Call number
- RBL 6
- Provenance
- Acquired from The Christensen Fund, Nov. 1997. At the time of Isabel Burton's death in 1896, the main part of Richard Burton's surviving manuscripts and library were deposited at the Central Library, Kensington; in 1955, the Royal Borough of Kensington gave the library to the Royal Anthropological Institute for safe-keeping. In 1986, The Christensen Fund acquired the entire library from the R.A.I., and deposited it at the Huntington Library, until November 1997, when The Christensen Fund formally gave the manuscripts and 2,500-volume library to the Huntington Library.
