University of Pennsylvania, LJS 456

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS693

Shelfmark:

LJS 456

Title:

Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah.

Place:

Andalusia

Andalusia TGN

Date:

A.H. 797 (1394)

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 22 leaves : paper ; 256 x 186 (190 x 130) mm bound to 256 x 202 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Watermark: Curved horn with a rope looped between the two ends, centrally placed.
Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 797 (1394; colophon, f. 22r); perhaps produced in Andalusia.
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.
Decoration: Rubrications in red and blue.
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.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Arabic

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Education of princes

Astronomy

Political ethics

Islamic magic

Kings and rulers--Duties

Early works

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--In literature

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958446673503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3wp9c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania