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Treatise on kingship

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1 copy of Gushāʾish'nāmah by Khvājah Rāj Kiran

Author: Khvājah Rāj Kiran خواجه راج كرن

Title: Gushāʾish'nāmah

Title: گشائش نامه

Treatise on the ethics of kingship in refined prose and poetry, entitled Gushāʾish'nāmah by Khvājah Rāj Kiran, written at the suggestion of a certain Nand Lāl the munshī

Defective at beginning

Dated colophon (f. 97v): completed in the reign of Ghāz[ī] al-Dīn Ḥaydar Bahādur, 22 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1238/6 January 1823

Roughly and, occasionally, inaccurately transcribed in Indian taʿlīq

Damaged by wormholes and poor preservation; fragile

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 97 ff. (+1)
Dimensions (leaf): 188 × 122 mm.

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History

Origin: 1121 (1709 - 1710) AH ; India

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