Tehran – A ceremony honoring supporters of the handwritten manuscript will be held in Tehran in February 2026 under “Yesterday’s Legacy, Today’s Thoughts.”
According to Iran’s National Library and Archives, after a few years of holidays, the event will be held jointly by the National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian Parliament’s libraries, museums and document centres. The ceremony recognizes creators and contributors in the field of manuscripts.
Researchers, publishers, universities, cultural institutions and other active organizations in the field of textual research, manuscript collations, catalogs, and Koudikecology have been invited by September 22, 2025 to submit published works and key activities from 2018 to 2023 to the Conference Secretariat.
According to organizers, the event highlights the best promotional activities related to the manuscript. This includes policy making, evaluation, binding, restoration, digitization, donation of private manuscript collections and documents, donation to documents, publication of journals on codiecology and textual research, teaching of codiecology and manuscript research, similar texts of documented texts, and the personal person publishers of documentation, libraries) history, geography, literature, science, colanic research, law, philosophy, book bindings.
Additionally, the meeting reviews and selects the best theoretical works on manuscripts and text revisions, including books and papers on manuscript research, text editing, librarians, restoration, binding, preservation, and catalogues.
Iran is conceived as a cradle of handwritten manuscripts dating back to centuries. These manuscripts range from copies of the Holy Quran to poetry, scientific books, government, political documents, and more. A significant number of these valuable manuscripts are preserved in museums outside of Iran and highlight their global cultural and historical importance.
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