Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 462H

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DS ID:

DS29444

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 462H

Title:

Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-mamlakah wa-ḥifẓ al-riyāsah / كتاب السياسة في تدبير المملكة وحفظ الرياسة

Date:

1471 or 1472

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 68 leaves : paper, ill. ; 255 x 170 (176 x 120) mm. bound to 255 x 170 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
13 lines per page. Written in large naskh in black ink, with use of blue ink (see fol. 6b) and gold for headings (outlined in black from fol. 10a on). Illuminated title page in gold and blue (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpiece with basmalah in white on a blue and gold background with a gold, blue and red border on fol. 1b. The text is framed within a gold, black and blue border throughout. Figure...
Copy completed by Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī in 876 H. (colophon, fol. 67a).
Patronage: See provenance note.
Made for (bi-rasm) the library of Yashbak al-Ashrafī Amīr Dawādār al-Kabīr wa-Bāsh al-ʻAsākir al-Islāmīyah (illuminated frontispice, fol. 1a). Seal on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic Empire

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic calligraphy

Early works

Ibn al-Biṭrīq, Yūḥannā, -approximately 815

Kings and rulers--Duties

Arab countries

Education of princes

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950664533506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/81217245-ca52-4af0-a4ab-d126b327be58/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University