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KHAZAN MAHASIN AL-SHIYAM
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KHAZAN MAHASIN AL-SHIYAM

COPIED BY MUHAMMAD BIN MAHMUD BIN AL-HAJJ MUHAMMAD AL-SIWASI, NIKSAR, TURKEY, DATED AH 724/1323-24 AD

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KHAZAN MAHASIN AL-SHIYAM
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD BIN MAHMUD BIN AL-HAJJ MUHAMMAD AL-SIWASI, NIKSAR, TURKEY, DATED AH 724/1323-24 AD
A translation and abridgment of Abu Bakr Muhammad bin al-Walid al-Quraishi al-Tartusi's Siraj al-Muluk, a treatise on advice to kings and rulers, Persian manuscript on paper, 60ff. plus 6 fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of loose sepia naskh, important words and phrases picked out in red, occasional marginal notes, colophon signed, dated and stating it was copied in the Yagibasan madrasa in Niksar, areas of waterstaining, in modern Ottoman style morocco with central stamped cusped medallion issuing pendants, the doublures of marbled paper
Folio 9 5/8 x 6 3/8in. (24.5 x 16.1cm.)
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A note at the end of the manuscript written by the complier himself states that he heard Qutb al-Milla Fadl Yusuf bin al-Husayn al-Siwasi recite the work from this manuscript over the course of two days and that he corrected it and gave him permission to recite it. He then gives his name as Muhammad bin Sartaq al-Maraghi and states that he composed the work at the end of Jumada I AH 731/February-March 1331 AD.

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