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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [541v] (1095/1814)
The record is made up of 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios). It was created in 1892-1924. It was written in English, Urdu and German. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PERSIA
Grod. In the walls of the main fabric is also inserted a block
of porphyry which is looked upon as a sacred stone. Another old
building, in spite of its name, viz. the Musjid-i-No, or New
Mosque, an immensely large edifice, is in rather a better state of
preservation, having luckily escaped the worst earthquakes.. This
mosque, which consists of a flat-roofed cloister round a court, is said
to have been originally the palace of the Atabegs ; but to have
been converted to the worship of God by one ol those princes named
Ali bu Said in 1226 A.D., the mullahs, whom he had consulted
upon the illness of his son, having instructed him to devote to the
service of Allah his most valued possession. The only fabrics,
however, in anything approaching repair are those erected by
Kerim Khan, the most beautiful of which is the Musjid-i-Vekil
near the Meidan, left unfinished by the Regent at his death and
never yet completed. A madresseh also survives and is still frequently
designated by his name ; while another, styled the Madresseh-i-
Baba Khan, in the vegetable market, is deserted and in rums,
although retaining traces of magnificence. The decorative
treatment of Kerim Khan’s buildings is less conventional and more
secular in type than that of the earlier Mohammedan mosques,
bunches of roses and flowers and bright colours being largely
employed in the eighteenth century faience, which depended more
upon the splendour of polychrome than upon hieratic correctness.
The largest of the domes of Shiraz, which are all of a somewhat
elongated pattern, that has been irreverently compared to the head
of a big asparagus, is that of Shah Chiragh, at no great distance
from the Ark. It contains the tomb of one of the sons of Imam
Musa, behind a silver grating. Other notable tombs are those
of Seyid Mir Ahmed, in a good state of preservation, and of
Seyid Allah-ed-Din Husein, another son of Imam Musa, which was
described by Buckingham in 1816 as the then finest building in
Shiraz. The tomb of Shah Mirza Hamza, outside the walls on the
north, which was restored by Kerim Khan, has almost fallen to
pieces, and its once conspicuous cupola has collapsed.
The life and beauty of Shiraz were always, however, extra-mural
in character and location, and were centred in the umbrageous
People and gardens and beside the poets’ graves that have won for
life it such a place in the realm of song. The superb climate
of the southern capital admitted of an almost wholly out-of-dooi
existence; while the vivacious temperament of its people disposed
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These two volumes are George Curzon's own personal annotated copies of both volumes of his book Persia and the Persian Question , which was published in 1892. Alongside the volumes are various loose papers relating to Persia [Iran], consisting of the following: received correspondence; newspaper cuttings; publishers' press releases; cuttings from various booksellers' catalogues; various journal and magazine articles; two items of printed official British correspondence; several prints of photographs and sketches; and a few handwritten notes by Curzon.
In most cases these papers, which range in date from 1892 to 1924, relate to the chapters in the book where they were originally inserted, suggesting that they were kept by Curzon with the intention of using them to inform a revised edition of the book.
Of particular note among the small amount of correspondence are two letters received by Curzon in 1914 and 1915 from retired schoolmaster and Islamic scholar Sayyid Mazhar Hasan Musawi of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (ff 5-9 and ff 44-53). These letters, which are written in Urdu and are accompanied by English translations, discuss in detail several inaccuracies found in the Urdu version of Persia and the Persian Question .
The various prints of photographs and sketches, which were originally inserted into volume two, are of different locations in the Gulf region. Several of these appear to have been produced in preparation for the publication of the second volume of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Oman and Central Arabia (i.e. the 'Geographical and Statistical' section) in 1908, as they are identical to the versions found in that volume.
Also of note among the loose papers are an illustrated article from Country Life dated 5 June 1920, entitled 'The People of Persia' (ff 36-37), and a printed family tree of the Shah of Persia [Aḥmad Shah Qājār], produced in preparation of his visit to Britain in 1919 (f 233).
Volume one of Persia and the Persian Question contains a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Balochistan], which is folded inside the front cover (f 1).
The German language material consists of a publisher's press release for two books authored by German archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld (ff 29-30).
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- 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios)
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Foliation: this shelfmark consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of volume one (1-463), and terminates at the last folio of volume two (ff 464-898); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Each volume contains a large number of loose leaves, which have been foliated in the order that they were inserted into the volume; for conservation reasons, these loose folios have been removed from the volume and stored separately. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the two volumes.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F111/33
- Title
- Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Questionby George Curzon, with Inserted Papers
- Pages
- 54r:135v, 147r:149v, 158r:180v, 183r:221v, 224r:224v, 227r:246v, 248r:257v, 259r:260v, 268r:362v, 364r:364v, 367r:388v, 390r:400v, 402r:416v, 419r:432v, 434r:444v, 448r:462v, 464r:471v, 475r:481v, 483r:513v, 516r:525v, 527r:544v, 546r:563v, 566r:598v, 600r:622v, 624r:656v, 658r:665v, 667r:675v, 678r:684v, 687r:688v, 691r:691v, 693r:693v, 695r:708v, 711r:721v, 724r:726v, 728r:729v, 731r:736v, 742r:742v, 746r:757v, 759r:761v, 763r:763v, 765r:765v, 772r:777v, 780r:789v, 793r:794v, 797r:809v, 811r:821v, 825r:840v, 843r:898v
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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