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1. Add MS 20736

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736
Title:: Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:: Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the transcrip...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: ca 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r
Title:: Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
Scope & Content:: A general treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills in the tradition of the so-called 'Treatise B' of the ʿAbbasid furūsīyah master Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (ابن أخي حزام, d. ca 864, see citation and note about the incipit of the latter, with identical wording to the present text, in Al-Sarraf, Shiha...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-96r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736, ff 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r
Title:: Risale-yi Şecaiye رساله شجاعیه
Scope & Content:: An Ottoman Turkish translation of an Arabic treatise discussing how a perfect mounted soldier should handle his weapons in battle. The text of this work was copied into blank spaces left for illustrations to the Arabic treatise for which the volume was originally created. (see Add MS 20736, ff. 2v-9...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r