PROBABLY ANDALUSIA, AH 797/1394 AD

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ARISTOTLE: AL-SIYASA FI TADBIR AL-RIYASA
Probably Andalusia, AH 797/1394 AD
On politics, Arabic manuscript on paper, 22ff. with 15ll. of sepia maghribi, titles in red or blue, final folio with colophon dated 797, restored, part of text area missing, in nineteenth century red morocco binding with flap
Folio 10 x 7½in. (25.6 x 19cm.)

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This is one of three treatises called secreta secretorum translated from the Greek by Yuhanna ibn al-Bitriq (fl.200/815). It was composed by Aristotle for his student Alexander, al-qurnayn, and gives instructions on politics and how to govern.
Brockelmann, C.: Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, Leiden, 1996 Vol.I, p. 203, SI, p. 364.
The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin has a slightly earlier copy dated 762/1361.

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