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Subject(s)

• Political science—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam and politics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 [Browse]

Summary note

Ms. is an Arabic tract on the true principles of good government written for Sultan Mehmet III and completed in Zilhicce 1004 A.H. [beg. 27 July 1596] together with a Turkish commentary/paraphrase by the same author written the following year in Recep [beg. Feb. 18 1597] (c.f. Charles Rieu, Cat. of the Turkish Msc. in the British Mus. London: British Mus., 1888). This copy is undated and no scribe is named.

Notes

• Title from p. 9.
• Title on f. 1a: Risale-yi lātife-yi et-taf.
• Binding is pasteboard covered in brown leather with stamped gilded borders and gilded center design; endpapers are marbled.
• Volume has 48 f. of glazed paper measuring 212 x 135 mm.; 84 mm. Text area, ruled in gold with black outlines, measures 163 x 84 mm. Text is on f. 1b-42b; f. 43a-48b are blank. F. 1b has illuminated ʻunwān. Arabic text and overlining in red. Water damage in lower right corner with some damage to text.
• Incipit, p.[1]: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمد اول ناصر وقهاره كه ايتدى منصور عسكر دين ظفر رهبرى كفرى مقهور...
• Explicit, p. [83]: حكم اولدقده ايجنده واقع سهود خطامى زبل عفولربه مستور كرم و لطفلرى ايله معذور بيوره لر تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب.

Language note

Turkish in Arabic script and Arabic.

Provenance

• Gift of Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
• Previously owned by: Genç Mehmet Paşazade İbrahim --Inscription and stamp dated 1202 [1787 or 1788]; Abdullah Mehmet Ziyaeddin -- Stamp dated 1335 [1916 or 1917].
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Other format(s)

The Arabic work has been published in ʻAmmān, 1986 and Kuwayt, 1986 under the same title.

Other title(s)

• Usûl ül-hikem fi nizam il-âlem
• اصول الحكم فى نظام العالم
• Risale-yi latife-yi et-taf
• رسالۀ لطيفۀ الطاف

OCLC

122824287

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