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Kitāb al-Siyāsah al-sharʻīyah al-musammá tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar.
كتاب السياسة الشرعية المسمى تسهيل النظر وتعجيل الظفر.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 405
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Māwardī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 974?-1058.
- Standardized Title:
- Tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar
- تسهيل النظر وتعجيل الظفر
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers--Duties.
- Political science--Early works to 1800.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction as part of his collection at Piasa (Paris), 7 June 1999.
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
- Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Physical Description:
- 75 leaves : paper ; 225 x 160 (180 x 110) mm bound to 225 x 170 mm
- Other Title:
- Siyāsah al-sharʻīyah al-musammá tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar
- سياسة الشرعية المسمى تسهيل النظر وتعجيل الظفر
- Place of Publication:
- [Egypt?], [1250-1350?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Treatise in two chapters, one on the qualities of a good ruler and the other on the art of good government. Partial loss of seal impressions and marginal notes due to trimming.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- 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 verso.
- Layout: Written in 17 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in dark brown ink; pointed and vocalized.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 144 (LJS 405).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 405.
- OCLC:
- 122479986
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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