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A copy of an anonymous work on the proper conduct of Kings entitled Ādāb al-mulūk.

Keble MS. 88

Keble College, University of Oxford

Details

This item is described in 1 online catalogue.?

For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Description

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Title

A copy of an anonymous work on the proper conduct of Kings entitled Ādāb al-mulūk.

Shelfmark

Keble MS. 88

Language

Arabic

Contents

Author: Anonymous Title: Ādāb al-mulūk Title: آداب الملوك

Form

codex

Physical extent

ff. ii + 21 + i

Hands

Script: Large fine Naskh in black ink.

Decoration

Fol. 1a contains a title heading panel and a dedication roundel in blue and gold. Fol. 21a has an end panel in gold. Many sentences throughout are punctuated with small gold, red, and blue florettes.

Acquisition

Presented to Keble College Library by Rev. Greville J. Chester, May, 1885.

Provenance

Fol. 1a contains a dedication to Mawlānā al-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ashraf Abū al-Naṣr Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī, penultimate Mameluke ruler of Egypt, d. 1516.

Subject

Education of Princes

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  • Anonymous
  • Qānṣawh al-Ġawrī, ca. 1441-1516

  • ʻAlī ibn Razīn al-Kātib

  • Thaʿālibī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad, 961 or 2-1037 or 8

  • Chester, Greville John, 1830-1892

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