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Or 15743

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Or 15743
Title:
Kashf al-gharaʼib
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
93 ff plus 3 blank
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1865
End Date:
2000
Date Range:
1865-2000
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Majd al-Mulk, Muḥammad Khān, 1809?-1873?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/48076182
Majd al-Mulk, Muḥammad Khān, 1809?-1873?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/48076182
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15743

Kashf al-gharaʼib

Contents

1 copy of Kashf al-gharā’ib by Majd al-Mulk, Muḥammad Khān, 1809 or 1810-1872 or 1873

Author: Majd al-Mulk, Muḥammad Khān, 1809 or 1810-1872 or 1873 مجيد الملك، محمد خان
Title: Kashf al-gharā’ib
Title: کشف الغرائب

Kashf al-gharā’ib also called Risālah-'i Majdīyah, a series of critical reflections, assessing in candid and unfavourable terms the state of government in Qajar Iran, with criticisms of the stewardship of Mīrzā Yūsuf Mustawfī. This work was composed in 1282/1865-6 by Mīrzā Muḥammad Khān Majd al-Mulk Lavāsānī (d. 1298/1881), father of Mīrzā ‘Alī Khān Amīn al-Dawlah.

Other contents: f. 1r, verses; 93v, a rubā‘ī.

Language(s): Persian with quotations in Arabic.
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Off-white paper of Russian manufacture, some folios being embossed with the legend, in capitals: Fabrika viaz[menii?] Demidova.
Extent: 93 ff plus 3 blank
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 108 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 59 mm.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 12

Hand(s)

Good nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

Arabic quotations, overlining, and old pagination in red ink: 182 pages.

Additions:

Binding

Limp red leather binding with blind margin lines.

History

Origin: 1865-2000 19th-20th centuries CE

Provenance and Acquisition

2001-05-02

Acquired from Bonham's sale, 2 May 2001, lot 167.

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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