Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 463H.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2368

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 463H.

Title:

Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī maʻrifat al-riyāsah al-maʻrūf bi-Sirr al-asrār ... etc.

Date:

1494 or 1495

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 38, i leaves : paper ; 260 x 170 (185 x 115) mm. bound to 260 x 170 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title pages of each text (fol. 1a and 25a).
Patronage: At the end of the first text, mention of the patron's name: "bi-rasm al-muqirr al-ashraf al-karīm al-ʻālī al-Mawlawī al-Sayfī Tānī Bey(? Qānī bey?) khāzandār al-Amīr ... al-Sayfī ... dawādār Tānī " (fol. 22a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 38 + i ; i (later free endpaper) + 1-2¹⁰ 3⁴ 4¹⁰ 5⁴ ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated.
Paper: Thick glazed light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. A few leaves aged differently, and appear now as light biscuit (see fol. 26 and 28).
Origin: Kitāb al-Siyāsah Copied 900 H. (colophon, fol. 22a). Both texts are apparently by the same hand.
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Education of princes

Kings and rulers--Duties

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951440473506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d8ebfac-28cd-44fa-9294-3fc4503a1b29/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University