Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.2:

Tomb cover of Imam Riza

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  This is the threshold of sanctity, in the dust of the road to which mighty kings have laid

Sub-Type:  Translation

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript

Date:  July 07, 1995

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  Arberry, Arthur J.; translator

Language:  English

Notes:  Original and English translation of the Persian tomb inscription.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 14

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  Here is the threshold of holiness in the dust of the road where mighty kings have laid their heads

Sub-Type:  Translation

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, 1977

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton's English rendering of the Persian tomb inscription as published in his Collected Poems.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 14

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  I am sending to you a photograph of the Tomb Cover of Imam Riza, which I obtained from the

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph signature

Date:  July 07, 1995

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  Paguio, Erlinda

Language:  English

Notes:  Letter from Erlinda G. Paguio, University of Louisville, to Robert E. Daggy, Director, Thomas Merton Center. (Paguio attaches the original Persian text, translations, and Merton's rendering.)

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 14

Item 4 - 

First Lines:  Muhammad Jafar Kashani Persian 16thc. Tomb Cover of the Imam Riza 1953.124

Sub-Type:  Photographs

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Photograph

Date:  July 07, 1995

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Black and white photographic reproduction of the tomb cover of Imam Riza from the Cincinnati Museum of Art, reproduced in 1995.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 14

Item 5 - 

First Lines:  Here is the approach to Holiness, through the dusty road onto which mighty kings have laid down

Sub-Type:  Translation

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript

Date:  July 07, 1995

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  Ackerman, Phyllis

Language:  English

Notes:  English reformulation of a translation by Arthur J. Arberry of the Persian tomb inscription.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 14