Tuḥfat al-mulūk
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1818
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Intellect; Islam; Islamic ethics; Islamic philosophy; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Kitāb Tuḥfat al-mulūk
Description: Copy of a treatise; two volumes in one; the first about intellect, reason, ignorance, the second about politics. The copy has several watercolor illustrations.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 21-22 long lines.

Script: Written in nasta'liq for Persian and naskh for Arabic.

Decoration: Rubrications in red. 17 larger illustrations about knowledge, chiefly in black and brown with some polychrome including green, orange, blue (f. 5v, 15v, 19r, 23v, 25v, 31v, 33r, 38r, 39r, 43v, 47r, 48v, 54r, 57v, 107v, 129r, 130r). Several leaves of tables in black (f. 152r, 190v-192v, 208v-213r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 146.

A leaf with a section of Jamī's poem Yūsuf va Zulaykhā was previously laid in with this manuscript; it has been removed and cataloged separately as MS Or 146a.

Origin: Copy completed in 1233 AH. (f. 362v).

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian translations and commentary with Arabic source-text.

Black leather with embossed, painted, and laquered central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces. Framed in Arabic calligraphy citing a ḥadīth from the Prophet Muḥammad. Doublure is printed paper with honeycomb pattern in brown, orange, blue, and red.

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