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[Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah].
[كتاب السياسة في تدبير الرياسة].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Secretum secretorum. Arabic.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Islamic magic.
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--In literature.
- Education of princes--Early works to 1800.
- Education of princes.
- Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800.
- Kings and rulers--Duties.
- Political ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Political ethics.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Islamic magic--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Penn Provenance:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 22 leaves : paper ; 256 x 186 (190 x 130) mm bound to 256 x 202 mm
- Production:
- [Andalusia?], A.H. 797 (1394)
- Other Title:
- Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah
- سياسة في تدبير الرياسة
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 18 (LJS 456).
- Cited as:
- LJS 456
- OCLC:
- 814278165
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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