Details

Subject(s)

• Kings and rulers—Duties—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Education of princes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Compiler

• Ibn al-Biṭrīq, Yūḥannā, -approximately 815 [Browse]

Related name

• ابن البطريق، يوحنا، -approximately 815 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 463H [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two treatises, one a mirror of prince, the other the story of the conversion of Ḥabīb ibn Mālik. Followed by a short text in Ottoman Turkish relating a story involving the Prophet Muhammad.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title pages of each text (fol. 1a and 25a).
• Patronage: At the end of the first text, mention of the patron's name: "bi-rasm al-muqirr al-ashraf al-karīm al-ʻālī al-Mawlawī al-Sayfī Tānī Bey(? Qānī bey?) khāzandār al-Amīr ... al-Sayfī ... dawādār Tānī " (fol. 22a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 38 + i ; i (later free endpaper) + 1-2¹⁰ 3⁴ 4¹⁰ 5⁴ ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated.
• Paper: Thick glazed light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. A few leaves aged differently, and appear now as light biscuit (see fol. 26 and 28).
• Origin: [Kitāb al-Siyāsah ] Copied 900 H. (colophon, fol. 22a). Both texts are apparently by the same hand.
• Incipit: [كتاب السياسة] اما بعد اصلح الله امير المومنين وايده على حماية الدين وابقاه لرعاية المومنين اجمعين فان عبده امتثل امره والتز ماحده من البحث على كتاب السياسة -- [كتاب فيه قصة حبيب] الحمد لله القوي الغني لا اله الا الله انشقاق القمر بمحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم روي محمد بن اسحاق الواقدي وجميل بن صعصعة بن جميل كل يقول ويذكر في جديثه انه لما انزل الله تعالى ... وانذر عشيرتك الاقربون -- [Short text] دغد مكد احمد حق رسول محمد كلدي عالما رحمت بولدي
• Explicit: [كتاب السياسة] اصحاب باس عظيم وجهل كثير فقابل كل طبقة منها بما يشاكلها فانك ترشد ان شاء الله تعالى وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم -- [كتاب فيه قصة حبيب] فعندها اسلم حبيب بن مالك واسلم الاربعون الف على يد رسول الله [38أ] صلى الله علىه وسلم واسلم جماعة من قريش ... فظهر التبى ... ومعه ابو بكر وعلي ابن ابى طالب رضى الله عنهما والحمد لله ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper over paper pasteboards Traces of a missing leather fore-edge flap. Paper pastedown and flyleaf.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-24b: Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī maʻrifat al-riyāsah al-maʻrūf bi-Sirr al-asrār alladhī allafahu al-faylasūf al-ḥakīm al-fāḍil Arusṭālīs li-tilmīdhihi al-aʻẓam al-malik al-Iskandar al-maʻrūf bi-Dhī al-Qarnayn.
• 2. fol. 25a-38a: Kitāb fīhi Qiṣṣat Ḥabīb ibn Malik.
• 3. fol. 38b: [Short text in Ottoman Turkish].

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 780, 2212
• Manzaloui, The Pseudo-Aristotelian "Kitāb Sirr al-asrār". Facts and Problems. Oriens, 23. (1974), p. 149, no. 4.

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Secretum secretorum. Arabic.
• Qiṣṣat Ḥabīb ibn Malik.
• قصة حبيب بن ملك.
• Siyāsah fī maʻrifat al-riyāsah.
• سياسة في معرفة الرياسة.
• Sirr al-asrār.
• سر الاسرار.

OCLC

85893604

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