Comprehensive treatise on the science of prognostication through astrological interrogations. The manuscript does not state the text's author and the title has been derived from the preface (f. 3v, line 17). Confusion regarding the identity of the text and its author is expressed by a note dated...
Anonymous treatise on horsemanship and the arts of the lance
Scope & Content:
Unique copy, defective at beginning and end, of a treatise on instruction in horsemanship, written by an anonymous master of the royal barracks for his fellow teachers of trainee mamluks, around the late fourteenth century. The text contains numerous sections (bābs) on horse-riding, burjās exer...
al-Tadbīrāt al-sulṭānīyah fī siyāsat al-ṣināʿah al-ḥarbīyah التدبيرات السلطانية في سياسة الصناعة الحربية Ibn Manjlī, Muḥammad ابن منجلي، محمد
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the management of armies and preparation for warfare, by Muḥammad Ibn Manjlī (or Mankalī or Manglī) al-Nāṣirī (محمد ابن منكلي, fl. 1362-76, see ff. 45r, line 6 and 58r, line 1). The author was a high-ranking officer in the guard of Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Shaʿbān (reg. 764–78/1...