University of Pennsylvania, LJS 405
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS653
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 405
- Title:
- Kitāb al-Siyāsah al-sharʻīyah al-musammá tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar.
- Māwardī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 974?-1058 / ماوردي، علي بن محمد، 974؟-1058
- Place:
- Egypt
- Date:
- [1250-1350?]
- Language:
- Arabic
- 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
Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003
- 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:
- 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:
