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A COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND NOTES FORWARDED TO HAJIB AL-DAWLA, MANY BEARING COMMENTS OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH
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A COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND NOTES FORWARDED TO HAJIB AL-DAWLA, MANY BEARING COMMENTS OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH

QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND NOTES FORWARDED TO HAJIB AL-DAWLA, MANY BEARING COMMENTS OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Two volumes of letters, envelopes bearing royal insignia, drawings and decrees mounted in ivory paper margins with blue, gold and red rules, bound into two albums, covered in green velvet, good condition
Folio (including margins) 11¾ x 7¾in. (30 x 19.5cm.) (2)
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A collection of royal Qajar letters and documents, mostly from the time of Nasir al-Din Shah (those with his comments dated between AH 1296 AD 1878-9 and AH 1313/AD 1896), with others from reign of Muzaffar al-Din Shah.

It starts with envelopes addressed to Hajib al-Dawla from Nasir al-Din Shah with his stamp dated AH 1304/AD 1886-7. Among the documents is an official letter from Nasir al-Din Shah to Amin al-Sultan that bear the Shah's seal impression and one note by Amina Aqdas wife of Nasir al-Din Shah. There is one letter of Muhammad Shah to Mirza Abu'l-Qasim Qa'im Maqam (undated), a few belonging to Muzaffar al-Din Shah's period dated between AH 1313/AD 1896 and AH 1324/AD 1906 and one belonging to the first year of Muhammad 'Ali Shah dated AH 1324/AD 1906. A few notes by Hajib al-Dawla are also included.

The notes are addressed to Ja'far Quli Khan, Ja'fari, Jalal al-Mulk, Hajib al-Dawla and Mu'in al-Sultan and many deal with payments.

Ja'far Quli Khan, Jalal al-Mulk, Hajib al-Dawla , Mu'in al-Sultan (b. circa1280/1863-4) was appointed in charge of staff of the private apartment of the Shah. He accompanied the Shah to Europe in AH 1290 AD 1873-4 as his private servant and again in AH 1295/AD 1878-9 being given the title ghulam bacheh bashi (Chief in charge of staff). He was titled Jalal al-Mulk in 1301 (AD 1883-04) and Hajib al-Dawla in AH 1310/AD 1892-3 and Mu'in al-Sultan by Muzaffar al-Din Shah (a letter written by Muzaffar al-Din Shah to him with the title Mu'in al-Sultan dated AH 1320/AD/1902 when the Shah was in Paris is among the documents).

Ref. M. Bamdad, Dictionary of National Biography of Iran, 1700-1900 , vol. 1, Tehran, 1966, pp. 244-5.