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Mr Baillieu also thanked corporate supporters of the Library and launched the State Library of Victoria Foundation’s new corporate membership program.

It is an inspired and imaginative collaboration,' Mr Baillieu said. The performance will be accompanied by Turkish folk performers, the Nefes Ensemble, who will present the music of the Ottoman Empire through authentic Turkish instruments. 'Through this partnership, the Victorian Opera's Youth Opera cast will perform The Play of Daniel.

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Mr Baillieu said the exhibition will be enhanced by a full program of events and activities including an exciting partnership with the Victorian Opera which will bring opera to the Library for the first time. 'Focused around classic Persian tales of love, these beautiful examples of manuscripts and miniature painting, illumination and calligraphy rarely travel outside the UK, and some will be on public display for the very first time,' Mr Baillieu said. 'It will allow visitors to get up close to intricate priceless works from the Persian, Ottoman and Mughal empires that date back to the 13th to 18th centuries – a very rich and important period in the history of the book.

'Love and Devotion will be a free exhibition and the largest collection of Persian manuscripts ever seen in Australia,' Mr Baillieu said. Premier Ted Baillieu said the Love and Devotion: from Persia and Beyond exhibition will bring exclusively to Melbourne more than 60 illustrated Persian manuscripts – some eight centuries old – from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.