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QUEEN VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1819-1901)
Zendigani-yi ma dar kuhistan زندگانی ما در کوهستان (Our Life in the Highlands)
1884-85RCIN 1005029
Tan-coloured calf binding, with lacquered incised gilt ornamentation on front cover, signed by Razi Taliqani and dated 1884-5. Contained within ornamental silk bag
This is a Persian translation of Queen Victoria's 'More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882', her account of her life in Balmoral in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The English original, published in London in 1884, was presented by the author to Nasir al-Din Shah, who ordered a court translator to translate the work into Persian. Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, Director of the Persian Telegraph and a Persian scholar, had this second copy made and illuminated for presentation to Queen Victoria.
Catalogue entry adapted from 'Islamic Manuscripts in the British Royal Collection', Leiden 1994
This is a Persian translation of Queen Victoria's 'More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882', her account of her life in Balmoral in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The English original, published in London in 1884, was presented by the author to Nasir al-Din Shah, who ordered a court translator to translate the work into Persian. Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, Director of the Persian Telegraph and a Persian scholar, had this second copy made and illuminated for presentation to Queen Victoria.
Catalogue entry adapted from 'Islamic Manuscripts in the British Royal Collection', Leiden 1994
