File:The Ganjineh-ye, Treasury, of Mu'tamid al-Dawla Mirza 'Abd al-Wahhab (Nishat), a collection of copies of official documents and royal letters in prose, as well as poetry, Qajar Persia, probably Tehran, dated December 1830-Januari 1831.jpg

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English: The Ganjineh-ye, Treasury, of Mu'tamid al-Dawla Mirza 'Abd al-Wahhab, known as Nishat, a collection of copies of official documents and royal letters in prose, as well as poetry

Qajar Persia, probably Tehran, dated rajab 1246/December 1830-January 1831 Persian manuscript on paper, 262 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in clear nasta'liq text in black ink, inner margins ruled in red, blue and gold, catchwords, headings written in nasta'liq script in red and black, five illuminated headpieces in colours and gold, outer margins of folios 1b-2a decorated with intertwining vegetal motifs and flowerheads in gold and some colours, edges frayed, some crude repairs, some soiling, floral lacquer binding, damaged, crudely rebacked 300 x 204 mm.

The text was put together two years after the author's death. The contents is divided into five sections:

Prefaces, speeches, waqfnamahs, certificates and description of a few provinces. Royal addresses, firmans and royal orders. Petitions to the Shah and to princes and correspondence. Munajats, treatises, counsels etc. Mathnaviyyat, qasa'id, ghazaliyat, quatrains and single verses.

The author Mirza 'Abd al-Wahhab Mu'tamid al-Dawla, pen-named Nishat (d. 1244/1828-9) was a well-known politician and secretary to Fath' Ali Shah Qajar. He was known for his style of composition, his poetry and his calligraphic style, particularly his shikasteh. See M. Bamdad, Dictionary of National Biography of Iran, 1700-1960, vol. 2, 1966, pp. 318-20.

The manuscript was purchased by Mafakhir al-Dawla (unidentified), who wrote the note in the flyleaf and left his seal impression in Teheran on 2nd dhi'l-hajjah 1264/30 October 1848. The price was 15 gold Muhammad Shahi tuman. He registered it in an unspecified library.
Date December 1830-January 1831
Source https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19935/lot/169/
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