ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD BIN WALID AL-TARTUSHI (D. 1127 AD): SIRAJ AL-MULUK

SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-JAZMADI, MERINID MOROCCO, DATED AH 830/1426-7 AD

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ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD BIN WALID AL-TARTUSHI (D. 1127 AD): SIRAJ AL-MULUK
SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-JAZMADI, MERINID MOROCCO, DATED AH 830/1426-7 AD
A renowned handbook of statecraft aimed particularly at kings, Vol.II of two, Arabic manuscript on paper, 147ff. as numbered plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of black maghribi, headings in larger gold maghribi outlined in black and issuing a marginal gold and polychrome illuminated medallion, some titles and words in larger black, blue or pink, with gold roundel markers, opening folio with illuminated cartouches, colophon in gold maghribi within illuminated frame, in modern binding
Folio 10 7/8 x 7½in. (27.5 x 19.3cm.)

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The colophon indicates that this manuscript was copied for the library of Abu Zakaria bin Yahya bin Zian al-Wattasi (d. 1448 AD) who was regent of the kingdom since 1420 under the Merinid Sultan 'Abd al-Haqq II. He was known as Lazeraque in contemporaneous Portuguese chronicles and defeated King Henry the Navigator in the Battle of Tangiers of 1437.

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