Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah
[كتاب السياسة في تدبير الرياسة]

Other related names

• Aristotle, attributed name

Call number

LJS 456
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958446673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/814246330
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5844667

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 797 (1394)

Place

Andalusia?

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.
   

Watermark

Curved horn with a rope looped between the two ends, centrally placed.

Extent

22 leaves : 256 x 186 (190 x 130) mm. bound to 256 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (19th-century?) + 22 + i (19th-century?) leaves; [169-212], modern pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Script

Written in neat maghribī script; pointed and vocalized.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Education of princes--Early works to 1800
• Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800
• Political ethics--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Islamic magic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

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