Or 15743 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Kashf al-gharaʼib

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

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.

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Physical Description

Form: codex

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

Hand(s)

Good nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

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

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Binding

Limp red leather binding with blind margin lines.

History

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Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World