University of Pennsylvania, LJS 405

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DS ID:

DS653

Shelfmark:

LJS 405

Title:

Kitāb al-Siyāsah al-sharʻīyah al-musammá tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar. / كتاب السياسة الشرعية المسمى تسهيل النظر وتعجيل الظفر.

Tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar

Author:

Māwardī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 974?-1058 / ماوردي، علي بن محمد، 974؟-1058

Al-Mawardi WIKIDATA

Place:

Egypt

Egypt TGN

Date:

[1250-1350?]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 75 leaves : paper ; 225 x 160 (180 x 110) mm bound to 225 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Item is undated, likely copied in Egypt between the mid-13th and mid-14th century.
Numerous notes and stamps on the first folio recto.
Binding: Modern binding incorporating 19th-century north African covers with flap (Type II) with stamped central mandorla with gold-tooled outline and frame corner decorations; marbled paper pastedowns.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Script: Written in naskh in dark brown ink; pointed and vocalized.
Foliation: Paper, i + 75 + i; [1-75]; three foliations: modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto which is in sync with an earlier foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals also in pencil in the upper left margin, recto, but is slightly out of sync with another, earlier foliation in ink, upper left recto, which has also been trimmed off in some instances. Catchwords in a different hand, lower left...
Layout: Written in 17 long lines.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts, Medieval

Political science

Kings and rulers--Duties

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949873813503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3c96s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania