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Title

Kitāb al-Siyāsah al-sharʻīyah al-musammá tasʹhīl al-naẓar wa-taʻjīl al-ẓafar.
كتاب السياسة الشرعية المسمى تسهيل النظر وتعجيل الظفر

Authors

• Māwardī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 974?-1058
  ماوردي، علي بن محمد،

Other related names

• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 405
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949873813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122479986
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4987381

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1250-1350?

Place

Egypt?

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.
   
• Numerous notes and stamps on the first folio recto.
   

Extent

75 leaves : 225 x 160 (180 x 110) mm bound to 225 x 170 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in dark brown ink; pointed and vocalized.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Kings and rulers--Duties
• Political science--Early works to 1800
• Kings and rulers--Duties
• Political science

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Early works

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Qualities of a good ruler, f. 1r
• fol. 31v — Art of good government, f. 31v