The texts included in this manuscript are copies of the treaties signed by Iran with France, Russia and England in the first half of the nineteenth century, providing an interesting insight to the diplomatic and commercial relations of the Qajar empire with the rest of the world. It was prepared for Farrokh Khan Ghaffari Amin al-Dowleh, one of the most eminent statesmen of the Qajar era, as an aide memoire for the negotiations of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1857.

It includes summaries of a treaty between Iran and Napoleon signed at Finkelstein and dated Safar 1222 AH/1807-08 AD by the Persian ambassador Mirza Mohammadreza Khan, Hughes Maret and Maurice de Talleyrand; a treaty with Russia signed in October 1813 at the village of Gulistan as a result of the first Russo-Persian War and various treaties with England, naming various Englishmen including a Mr Alice (mentioned in a treaty signed in 12 Dhi’l-hajjah 1229 AH/25 November 1813 AD), Mr Johnson and Sir John McNeill in 1841.