Museum of miniature books. Baku .
Wandering through the old town of Baku, along a tiny little street I stumbled across this tiny little museum holding tiny little books, and, as it was free to enter..Fuck it let's have a mooch. Glad I did!
The collection is a private one the owner Zarifa Salahova has been collecting them for some 30 years or so. She decided to share her collection with the wider world and opened this "museum" in 2002.
Quaintly called "fairy books" there are on display just under 3,000, (though her entire collection is nearer 7,000) they include works by the classical writers, Pushkin, Shakespeare, and Dostoyevsky.
As they have been sourced from around the world they are written in many languages, including Azeri, English, German and russian.
In 2014, Salahova was awarded a certificate by "The Guiness Book of World Records" for her possession of the largest collection of miniature books in the world.
The smallest book in the collection is just 5/64" x 5/64", a pretty strong magnifying glass is required and the oldest is a 17th C copy of the Koran, which is 15/64"x 23/64"
Here are just a few of them, sadly unable to pick them up, hold them read them as they are all contained in locked glass display cabinets.
Copies of the Koran with prayer beads
Hansel and Gretel and The Wolf and the Seven Kids, both classic Grimm's fairy tales
More classic children's books, Beatrix Potter
Soviet
The full sized edition has been around since the late 1950's and can in one form or another be purchased today
Classics translated into Russian, to the l3eft a tome by Shakespeare , two of his tragedies though unnamed, and a book of translated English poetry
.............has left the building
A series of children's books from the Soviet era
Someone has had a hard day at work
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Must have been an interesting experience, except for the guy sleeping. I've never been to such a museum, although I've seen a few editions at an exhibition.
It is not as though he has any heavy lifting to do LOL, it was a first for me, tbh I never knew such things existed until I visited.
That's what I call passion for something. I think we've all had that collector's spirit at some point.
In my case, while I was living in my country, I collected some things that I felt were important, but when you start moving, you end up giving away everything you own.
I don't like collecting anything anymore, because you never know when you'll have to move house or maybe even country again.
Surely a museum is the best place for a collection like this.
I guess the boy read so many books that he got exhausted! 😁
Cheers @mballesteros thanks for dropping in,loving your positive vibes, appreciate it. I know what you are saying, I just collect memories now with my camera (oh and fridge magnets LOL).
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That's the classic collection we all have at home. 😂
damn right we do LOL
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Wow, it looks to be a very interesting museum. I love so much tiny books. ❤️
I have never seen books like it before, there were so many to see I loved it too
The organic lady looks lovely.
A strange idea for the museum. Recently, I wanted to buy a book (a wooden book as I call ones that aren't electronic), and visited a second-hand book store here, in Kathmandu, where, as it turned out, each book was packed in plastic - you couldn't open them. :( You are supposed to touch books, read them, and enjoy the font, margins, etc.
:D But why do employees have to stand all day or even sit? People get tired of sitting - they need a place to lie down. I think he should have been allowed to have a couch there. They can add a gadget that rings as soon as the employee is sleeping - if you are hired, you are supposed to sleep at home.
You sound like a hard boss! LOL. yes I have come across books wrapped like the ones you found, open the plastic and you tend to find that they are cheap photo copies of poor quality.
Love that phrase "wooden books"
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Who would have thought there'll be a miniature book museum, and in Baku. And it's free. I love the sound of that.
Maybe his eyes hurt so much from reading the mini books ...
That or a heavy lunch !! and it was free to enter I guess the lady does it for love
I don't see the place as being so busy for him to be like that... or maybe it's that the books come to life when the visitors leave, and they get all mixed up, and he has to organize them again. What I just wrote feels like a message that came to me when I saw the little Hansel and Gretel book.
Did you buy the Elvis one? 😃 No, I must have misunderstood...
maybe he had a heavy lunch, they always make me want a siesta. I would have but no sale
Wow I had no idea that minature books were such a thing- and to collect them, and so many of them, that a whole other level of WOW!
Looks like there are many great reads in there- for the faeries.
LOL for the faeries, indeed