Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Bahādur, Aḥmad ʻAlī Khān, 1787-1840
  ‏ب‏هادر، احمد على خان،
• Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund

Other related names

• Ranken, George, recipient

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977137537203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1030861672

Publisher

Language

Summary

A wedding invitation to celebrate the marriage of Aḥmad ʻAlī Khān Bahādur addressed to Dr. George Ranken of the East India Company and his wife Lady Agnes Allan Ranken. The invitation is on red paper, written in Persian, and the script in painted gold leaf. Accompanied by an envelope with a personal stamp of the sender addressed to Dr. Ranken.

Extent

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, May 17 2017, lot 120A.
   

Genres

• Wedding announcements
• Invitations
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Loose leaf recto — Aḥmad ʻAlī Khān Bahādur wedding invitation, 1811

Decorations

• Loose leaf recto — Gold headpiece and margins
• Envelope recto — Stamp