Details

Subject(s)

• Alexander the Great 356 B.C.-323 B.C.—In literature [Browse]
• Astronomy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Education of princes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Kings and rulers—Duties—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Political ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Attributed name

• Aristotle [Browse]

Summary note

A popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine.

Notes

• 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.
• Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 797 (1394; colophon, f. 22r); perhaps produced in Andalusia.
• Pagination: Paper, i (19th-century?) + 22 + i (19th-century?) leaves; [169-212], modern pagination in blue ink, upper center.
• Script: Written in neat maghribī script; pointed and vocalized.
• Title from colophon (pages 211).
• Watermark: Curved horn with a rope looped between the two ends, centrally placed.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 18 (LJS 456).

Cite as

LJS 456.

Other title(s)

• Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah
• سياسة في تدبير الرياسة

OCLC

814246330

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