University of Pennsylvania, LJS 456
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS693
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 456
- Title:
- Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah / كتاب السياسة في تدبير الرياسة
- Place:
- Andalusia?
- Date:
- A.H. 797 (1394)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 22 leaves : paper ; 256 x 186 (190 x 130) mm bound to 256 x 202 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, i (19th-century?) + 22 + i (19th-century?) leaves; [169-212], modern pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in neat maghribī script; pointed and vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in red and blue.
Binding: 19th-century red leather with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; blind tooled frame and border; blue paper doublure with yellow and black painted flower pattern.
Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 797 (1394; colophon, f. 22r); perhaps produced in Andalusia.
Watermark: Curved horn with a rope looped between the two ends, centrally placed.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958446673503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3wp9c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
