Type of description:

From a catalogue

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Others

Current_location

Institution

Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Collection

Present shelfmark

D 719

Former shelfmark

Cas. 716

Total pages

97, III, II' fols

Folio measures

28 x 20 cm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Tunis

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Ibrahīm Ibn 'Abd al-Wāḥid Abī al-Nūr: Kitāb fīhi siyāsat al-'imāra; and three prescriptions. Binding: 28,5 x 21 x 3 cm. Surface: 28 x 20 cm. 14 lines per page. Patron: Abū Bakr II al-Mutawakkil 'alā Allāh (r. 1318-1346). Inscription: Fol. 001r Dedication (To the royal Ḥafṣid Hizāna). Paper, chain lines 4.5 cm, 20 laid lines = 38 mm, very clear and regular; ruled: dry-point; in folio; quinions. Binding new. Original cover glued to new one. Dark leather. Gold tooled cover design; border of knotwork and a central knotwork medallion, small pendants and corner pieces. Fragments of blue and rend endbands. Title on tail (worn out). Maġribī round script. Black ink; highlights in magenta; chrysography for dedicatin and titles on fols. 1r-3r (with red shadow).

Entry author

Marina Santana