Details

Subject(s)

• Political ethics—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—Politics and government—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on political ethics and the proprieties of government; contents listed on leaves 2b-3a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on leaf 308a.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Edges painted gray. Leaves 251-254 bound upside-down. Extensive insect damage; damp staining around margins and a few paper repairs.
• Origin: 8 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1251 H, corresponding to 1244 Faṣlī [26 March 1836], by Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ... [ibn] Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Karīm (leaf 308a).
• Incipit: حمد بسىار و ثناى بىشمار مر حضرت ملکى را که اسباب معاش

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 67

OCLC

849507871

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