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Dhakhīrat al-mulūk
Creator
همذاني، علي بن محمد، 1314-1385.
Title
Dhakhīrat al-mulūk / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī. -- 1617.
ذخيرة الملوك / علي بن محمد الهمذاني. -- 1617.
Physical Description
leaves 46-199 ; 31.5 x 18 cm
Language
Persian
Notes
Listed as no. 82 in Salisbury's catalog.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Ḥamd-i bisyār wa-sanā-yi bī-shumār Ḥaḍrat-i Mālik al-Mulkī Rā ..."
آغاز: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم ... حمد بسىار وسناى بيشمار حضرت مالک الملکى را ..."
Calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
ʻUnwān in gold and colors on leaf 46 verso.
Islamic binding, in brown.
With: 1 other title.
Colophon: "Tamma kitāb Dhakhīrat al-mulū[k fī aḥad] shuhūr sant alf wa-sitt wa-ʻishrīn, ʻalá yad ... Muḥammad Zamān [al-Ḥusaynī]."
الخاتمة: "تمّ كتاب ذخيرة الملو[ك في أحد] شهور سنة ألف وستّ وعشرين، على يد ... محمد زمان [الحسيني]."
Translation of the colophon: "The copy of Dhakhīrat al-mulū[k] was completed [in one] of the months of the year 1026 [of the Hijrah = 1617], by the hand of ... Muḥammad Zamān [al-Ḥusaynī]."
In Persian.
Provenance
From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 65, part 2). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870.
Summary
Manual of ethics for ruling princes.
Copied in A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1617).
Variant and related titles
Z̲akhīrat al-Mulūk
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Pertsch, 295
India Office, 2176
ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī, Dhakhīrat al-mulūk. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī, Dhakhīrat al-mulūk. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Persian - 17th century
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