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Or 3631
- Record Id:
- 032-003471880
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003471880
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100092865436.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113509887.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3631
- Title:
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Three treatises on military science
- Scope & Content:
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- (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 al-ramy] ([رسالة في الرمي]; ff. 279r-293v).
A title page on f. 4r gives the title of the first text in the present copy, but attributed to the author of the second.
A note in the flyleaf (f. 2v) of this volume records its loan between May 1838 and August 1842 to George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence (1794–1842), the 1st Earl of Munster. FitzClarence, the illegitimate son of King William IV, was interested in the history of the art of war, and amassed a vast collection of material in the years before his death, including Arabic manuscripts. This copy was returned after the Earl's death in March 1842.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003471880
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 3631, ff 4v-260v : Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá أقسرائي، محمد بن عيسى Nihāyat al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī…
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- 032-003471880
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+293+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100092865436.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 260 x 173 mm leaf [196 x 132 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Seventeen colour paintings and 21 diagrams in black and red ink. Title page with lettering in red and black within a gold-ruled frame (f. 4r); text area enclosed by gold-ruled frame (ff. 4v-5r); text area enclosed within double-ruled red frame (ff. 5v-293v). Fore-edge, head and tail decorated with gold.
Binding: Navy blue leather binding, with central blind-tooled floral medallion and upper and lower pendants within a gold-tooled interlocking double frame; the spine embossed with blind-tooled floral decoration and gold-tooled bands and lettering. Marbled doublures and recto-side of first front and verso-side of end flyleaves; traces of red sealing wax on inside front and back boards
Condition: Generally good, some dirt-stains to front of volume; ff. 3 and 4 repaired. Wormholes in tail margin repaired (ff. 3-7)
Marginalia: Pencil notes and corrections throughout in English, Latin and Arabic; Notes in English and Arabic transcriptions from the text in pen in a Western hand (ff.1r, 2v, 3v); note recording a loan (f. 2v); doodles (f. 3r); pencil instructions regarding rebinding (f. 3v); title inscription in French (f. 3v)
Seals: f. 4v
- Custodial History:
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- Lee family bookplate, undated with crest and motto 'Verum atque decens' (inside right board);
- Note recording a loan to the Earl of Munster (George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1794–1842), the First Earl of Munster, via Mr Sprenger, with date of loan 1838, returned 1842 (f. 2v);
- Muḥammad (محمد): his seal, without date (f. 2v);
Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī (محمد الحلبي): his inscription (f. 293v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Bought at Sotheby's, 8 November 1888
- Finding Aids:
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Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 820, pp. 555-557
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)