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Subject Chess--early works to 1800

1. Add MS 7469

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Add MS 7469
Title:
Ḥāwī al-lubāb wa-sharḥ talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb حاوي اللباب وشرح تلخيص أعمال الحساب Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab ابن المجدي، أحمد بن رجب
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybūghā al-Majdī al-Shāfi‘ī (شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن رجب بن طيبوغا المجدي الشافعي, d 1447) of the Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb (تلخيص أعمال الحساب, Epitome of the Operations of Arithmetic) by Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Marrā...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17 Rabī‘ II 840
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+206+i

2. Add MS 7515

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Add MS 7515
Title:
Kitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه
Scope & Content:
Anonymous handbook on chess, dealing with its legality, origins, symbolism, classes of players, poetry in praise of chess, poetry to be recited at various stages of play, and chess techniques. The sections on techniques cover chess problems (منصوبات), openings (تعبيات) and puzzles (مخارق). For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Jumādá II 655
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+132+i

3. Or 9227

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Or 9227
Title:
‘Umdat al-muḥtajj fī ḥukm al-shaṭranj عمدة المحتج في حكم الشطرنج Sakhāwī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān سخاوي، محمد بن عبد الرحمن
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the legality of chess by the hadith scholar and historian Abū al-Khayr Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Sakhāwī al-Shāf‘ī (أبو الخير شمس الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن السخاوي الشافعي, d. 1497) The copy is missing one or more folios at the beginning so the text begins in the mi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+52+i

4. Or 11225

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11225
Title:
Tuhfetü'l-ahbab - تحفة الاحباب
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on chess written in the year 1087 AH (1676-77 CE) by Şeyh Mehmet el-Mevlevi for the entertainment of Arnavut Abdurrahman Abdi Paşa, Vali of Egypt, in his leisure time. The text is divided into a mukaddime, four ebvap subdivided into fusul, and a hatime. In a med...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1091
Extent:
1 text, 89 ff