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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Military art and science -- Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 14055

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Add MS 14055
Title:
Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
Scope & Content:
A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+224+v

2. Add MS 14056

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Title:
Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
(1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v); (2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v); (3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
870
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+124+vi

3. Add MS 23488

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Kitāb al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah كتاب السؤل والامنية في تعلم أعمال الفروسية Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology, attributed to Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqsarāʾī (محمد بن عيسى بن إسماعيل الحنفي الأقسرائي, d. ca 1349). The copy was completed on 12 Rabīʻ II 1257/ 3 June 1841 by a scribe who names himself in the colophon simply as...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Rabīʻ II 1257
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+154+iii

4. Add MS 23489

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Add MS 23489
Title:
Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʿrifat al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غنية الطلاب في معرفة الرمي بالنشاب Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني
Scope & Content:
An undated copy of a technical treatise on archery, partly in verse, by Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī (طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني, d. c. 1394, see f. 19r, line 4), and probably written under the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Shaʻbān (reg. 1368-77). The title is given in a frontispi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

ff. iv+139+iv

5. Or 1358

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Or 1358
Title:
Ghunyat al-ṭullāb fī maʿrifat al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غنية الطلاب في معرفة الرمي بالنشاب Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني
Scope & Content:
An abbreviated copy of a technical treatise on archery, partly in verse, by Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamishī al-Yūnānī (طيبغا الأشرفي البكلمشي اليوناني, d. c. 1394, see f. 2, lines 3-5, and f. 33v, lines 10-11). The title of the work is given at the end of the introduction (f. 11v, line 11). Th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; i+223+i

6. Or 3134

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Or 3134
Title:
al-Wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy wa-al-nushshāb الواضح في الرمي والنشاب al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:
A copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The author's nisbah is frequently invoked by the copyist using the formula 'al-Ṭabarī said:...'...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; iii+34+iv

7. Or 3135

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Or 3135
Title:
Treatise on archery Jūkhī al-Mawṣilī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad جوخي الموصلي، يوسف بن محمد
Scope & Content:
A short untitled treatise on archery by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Jūkhī al-Mawṣilī (يوسف بن محمد الجوخي الموصلي, dates unknown) in the tradition of al-Kitāb al-wāḍiḥ fī al-ramy wa-al-nushshāb (كتاب الواضح في الرمي والنشاب) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (عبد الرحمن بن أحمد طبري, active ca 9th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+23+i

8. Or 3631

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Or 3631
Title:
Three treatises on military science
Scope & Content:
(1) al-Aqsarā’ī (الأقسرائي), Nihāyat al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah (نهاية السؤل والأمنية في تعليم أعمال الفروسية; ff. 4v-260v); (2) al-Ẓāhirī (الظاهري), [ʻIlm al-furūsīyah wa-siyāsat al-khayl] ([علم الفروسية وسياسة الخيل]; ff. ff 261v-279r; (3) al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي), [Risālah fī...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+293+iv

9. Or 3830

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Or 3830
Title:
al-Aqwāl al-kāfiyah wa-l-fuṣūl al-shāfiyah الأقوال الكافية والفصول الشافية
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the selection, management, and training of horses, and on horse physiology and the treatment of diseases. The present copy is incomplete, ending abruptly at a section on elephants from the final chapter on other beasts of burden. The text was originally written ca. 1330 by al-Mali...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+128+ii

10. Or 9015

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Or 9015
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+84+i