Manuscript; Sulwan al-muta' fi 'udwan al-atba' (Comfort of rulers when faced with the hostility of their followers); Arabic and Persian in black naskh script with illuminated unwan in white naskh; 103 folios with one double-page frontispiece (flyleaf folio and folio 1 recto), unwan (folio 1 verso), seal: oval (folio 1 recto), inscription on flyleaf; standard page: one column, 19 lines of text.
Binding: The manuscript is bound in a marbled cardboard.
Inscriptions:
Flyleaf: [?] the poor, slave Abu [?] may God forgive him [A.H.] 1117, [A.D. 1705].
Poor slave Ibrahim Pasha, son of Muhammad al-sa'd al-husna, may God forgive him.
Rare book of the state of Abu'l-Fath Sultan Muhammad Khan 'Asri [?].
Rare book of the state of Abu'l-Fath Sultan Muhammad Khan 'Asri [?].
Provenance:
From at least 1906 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), acquired from an unrecorded source by at least 1906 [1]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] See Reserved Book List, R. 6013.1, on the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This was one of a lot of ten previously undescribed books, from the Freer house library, which were put under No. 6013 on the Reserved Book List (see Curatorial Remark 1, G.D.G., 1935, in the object record, as well as F1906.302, Curatorial Remark 1, G.D.G., 1935, in the object record).
[2] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
