[İran risalesi,
ca. 1291, i.e. 1874].

[ايران رساله سى, ح 1291ه، 1874م].

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Main Author
Münif Paşa, 1830?-1910.
Language(s)
Turkish, Ottoman
Published
[ca. 1874]
Subjects
Qājār, Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh, > Shah of Iran, > -1834.
Turkey > History > Mahmud II, 1808-1839 > Sources.
Manuscripts, Turkish > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Diplomats > Turkey > Biography.
Ambassadors > Turkey > Biography.
Iran > History > Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 > Sources.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 > Sources.
Iran > Court and courtiers > 19th century.
Iran > Foreign relations > Turkey > 19th century.
Turkey > Foreign relations > Iran > 19th century.
Headpieces (layout features) > 19th century.
Summary
Exquisite copy of a short treatise composed by Mehmet Tahir Münif Paşa (d.1910) (see p.28-29, Ek I (147-152), Ek V, Ek VIII in Akın, Münif Paşa ve Türk kültür tarihindeki yeri and p.435-436 in Budak, Batılılaşma sürecinde çok yönlü bir Osmanlı aydını : Münif Paşa) chiefly on envoys sent from the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II (r.1808 to 1839) to the court of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār (r.1797-1834) and depicted in the wall paintings at Nigāristān Palace. Accompanied by fine watercolor portraits of these individuals and other envoys at the court. Addressed in the text are the ambassador Yescizade [Yasincizade] Seyyid Abdülvehhab Efendi (Seyit Abdülvahap Efendi) (d.1833), the ambassador Celalüddin Efendi, Aburrahman Paşa-yı Baban, and Süleyman Efendi. Addressed in the portraits are Abdülvahap Efendi, his attachés Hayret Efendi and Șakir Efendi and his serkatip, Celalüddin Efendi, Aburrahman Paşa-yı Baban, Shaykh Muḥammad (ambassador of Saʻūd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz), and ʻUwayf ibn al-Sayyid al-Ḥaḍramī (envoy of the governor of Yemen).
Note
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 392
Origin: As appears at close of preface (p.2), composed end of Ṣafar 1291 [1874]. This copy likely executed shortly afterward.
Former shelfmark: "156 [or 256 ?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and "254" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.
Binding: Pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork with brown leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; two-piece binding (overlapping flanges visible at spine, exterior and interior) ; doublures each in painted lacquerwork, a solid red field ; upper and lower covers carry paintings depicting each of two gates of Tehran (Darvāzah-i Dawlat on upper cover, Darvāzah-i Nāṣirīyah on lower cover) as indicated by inscriptions "دروازه دولت در طهران" and "دروازه ناصريه در طهران" ; sewn in cream thread, eight and four stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor losses of lacquer and paint.
Support: Opening gathering in non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, curving, somewhat indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, inclusions, dense and fairly thick though transluscent, beige to gray in color, well-sized and burnished ; paintings on sturdy paper now affixed with adhesive to quite heavy, opaque sheets of paper, cream in color.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouch flanked by vegetal motifs in gold on fields of lapiswith bright green and red accents surmounted by a well of red with white crosses flanked by narrow green bands filled with swirling vegetal and floral motifs (saz leaves, etc.) in gold with white, red, blue and green accents set among an empty scalloped medallion and triangular edge pieces to give a vaguely w-shaped effect ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule, margins also outlined in narrow gold bands defined by black fillets ; headings and vocalization in rubricated ; text followed by eight fine watercolor portraits of the envoys (compare figures as they appear in watercolors based on the life-size wall paintings at Nigāristān Palace, see AKM00502 Aga Khan Museum and no.34 in Diba, ed. Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925).
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with effect of words gently descending to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in distinct but conjoined dots, bowl of nūn wide and angled with dot set just down within.
Layout: Written chiefly in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).
Collation: i, IV (8), 4 I(16), i ; single quaternion followed by composed "single bifolia" hinged together with strips of cloth ; catchwords present ; each painting mounted on the verso of a separate leaf with the recto left blank ; foliation in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appearing on recto of leaves carrying paintings (begins with ١ on first leaf, p.17) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.
Explicit: "... اواخر رجبده نامه همايونك جوابنى اخذ ايله عودت ايلديلر"
Incipit: "فتحعلى شاه زماننده رجال ومأمورين دولت عليه دن ايرانه كلمشن اولان بعض ددانك [ذواتك] تصويرلرى طهرانده شاه مشار اليهك انشا كرده سى اولان نكارستان كوشكى ديوارنده نقش اولنمش اولمغله تصاوير مذكوره و ايران تاريخلرنده بونلره متعلق دسترس اوله بيلديكم بعض معلومات اشبو رساله يه نقل و درج اولندى غرض نقشی است کز ما بازماند که هستی را نمی بینم بقایی فی اواخر سهر صفر من سنة الف ومأتین و واحد و تسعین يسجى زاده سيد عبد الوهاب افندى بيك ايكى يوز يكرمى التى سنه سنده شاكر وحيرت افندىلر دخى رفاقتده اولديغىحالده خاقان خلد آشيان سلطان محمود خان ثانى طرفندن سفارتله فتحعلى شاه نزدينه ارسال اولنوب ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
At close of preface (p.2), author's signature now effaced (compare other manuscripts İstanbul Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi TY 4422 and Arkeoloji Müzesi Kütüphanesi TY No: 401) ; clean copy.
Physical Description
16 leaves : paper ; 280 x 207 (196 x 134) mm
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