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Add MS 14056
- Record Id:
- 032-002036479
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002036479
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000087
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100045800228.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14056
- Title:
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Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
- Scope & Content:
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(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
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002036479
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v : Anonymous collection of lance drills
Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v : Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v : Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
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- 032-002036479
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. vi+124+vi
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000087
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1466
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- 870
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 265 x 180 mm leaf [160 x 100 mm (ff. 1v-9v), 190 x 115 mm (f. 10r-10v), 180 x 115 mm (ff. 11r-18v), 185 x 120 mm (ff. 19r-123v) written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 11 lines per page, vertical spacing 7 lines per 10 cm (ff. 1v-9v); 9 lines per page, vertical spacing 5 lines per 10 cm (f. 10r-10v); 13 lines per page, vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 11r-18v); 15 lines per page, vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 19r-123v)
Script: Naskh; the scribe of ff. 19r-123v is Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Majlis al-‘Ālī al-Sayfī Burdbak al-Muḥammadī Ra’s Nawbat al-Nuwab al-Ẓāhirī (محمد ناصر الدين بن المجلس العالي السيفي بردبك المحمدي رأس نوبة الـنوب [؟] الظاهري, see colophon, f. 123v)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red, some headings and punctuation in gold (ff. 1v-18v), some headings and overlinings in green (ff. 37r-54v)
Binding: Brown leather case binding with blind tooling
Condition: Minor soiling to lower edge corners
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: None
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at the sale of the Earl of Munster's library, 6 April 1843 (lot 153)
- Administrative Context:
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Cairo?
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1156, pp. 528-29
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)