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Title:
Tuhfat al-muluk
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
9 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1925
End Date:
1926
Date Range:
1925-1926
Calendar:
Hijri-shamsi
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1919-1980
Sayyid Yūsuf Majd al-Udabā
Sayyid Ḥusayn, son of Majd al-Udabā
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15598

Tuhfat al-muluk

Contents

1 copy of Tuḥfat al-mulūk

Title: Tuḥfat al-mulūk
Title: تحفة الملوک

A didactic tract on ethics and government, also known by the title Tuḥfat al-vuzarā, comprising 40 briefsections (bāb), each containing four maxims.

Author unknown.

The present manuscript was copied and illuminated by or for Sayyid Yūsuf Majd al-Udabā, and illustrated by his son, for presentation to the heir apparent Prince (later Shah) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1919-1980This is evident from two inscriptions in illuminated panels at the foot of f. 8v and the head and foot of f. 9r, together with the presence of his portrait on f. 9r. The latter is signed by ‘Sayyid Ḥusayn pisar-i Majd al-Udabā’.

Includes a drawing of Prince Mohammad Reza on f. 9r by Sayyid Ḥusayn, son of Majd al-Udabā, dated 1304 shamsī/1925-6.

Language(s): Persian
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Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: European wove paper, cream-coloured, thin to medium, sized and polished.
Extent: 9 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 136 mm.

Hand(s)

Fine nastaʻlīq.

Typography

Decoration

Minute catchwords. Red section headings. Interlinear gilding throughout: vegetation scrolls; larger scrolls around portrait, 9r. Elegant small gilt and polychrome illuminated heading, f. 1v, and panels with inscriptions, f. 8v and 9r. Text frames: black, gold, black, gold, blue; black, gold, black in borders.

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Binding

Green leather binding with gilt border lines.

History

Origin: 1925-1926 1304 (1925 - 1926) AH ; Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

2000-04-11

Acquired from Christies sale 11 April 2000, Lot 99

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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