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Or 1358
- Record Id:
- 032-003477087
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477087
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099021362.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108787151.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1358
- Title:
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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
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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). This undated copy was transcribed by Muḥammad al-Umlayṭī al-Azharī (محمد الأمليطي الأزهري, see f. 223r, line 7, transcribed below).
The text was probably written under the Mamluk Sulṭān al-Ashraf Shaʻbān (reg. 1363-77). The present copy claims the text was written in 770/1368-9 (f. 34r, line 7) and describes it as 'number 247 in the dīwān' (f. 34r, lines 1-2), although these segments of text do not appear in older copies.
Contents:
- Preface and introduction, discussing prophetic sayings relating to archery (ff. 2v-12r);
- Ghināyat al-murāmī wa-ghāyat al-mighrām lil-muʻān (غناية المرامي وغاية المغرام للمعان), a treatise on archery in the form of a 149-verse qasīdah in rajaz metre (ff. 12r-34r, title at f. 15v, lines 1-2);
- Chapter two: A technical commentary on the preceding verses (الفصل الثاني في شرح ما ينبغي شرحه من الأبيات), consisting of detailed descriptions of equipment, techniques, and actions relating to archery, including mounted archery, physiology of the archer, and history and theory of archery (ff. 34r-146v);
- Section on miscellaneous subjects relating to archery (وما بعد ذلك من الأبيات..., ff. 146v-223r).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5):
الحمد لله العادل حكمه الشامل علمه القاهر
سلطانه الباهر برهانه
قامع الكفر ومبدره ومحل بأسه على من وقع
عليه أمره…
Ends (f. 222v, line 11- f. 223r, line 3):
...ثم
إلى شمس الدين محمد ثم إلى الشهابي شهاب
الدين أحمد بن المرحوم خاتمت المحررين المعروف
بين الرماة بأبي شامة رحمه الله أنتهى
Colophon (f. 223r, lines 4-10):
تم الكتاب المبارك على يد
أفقر خلقه وأحوجهم
إلى عفو ربه ومغفرته
محمد الأمليطي الأزهري
عفا الله عنه
ولمن دعا له
بالمغفر والرحمة والمسلمين أجمعين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003477087
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003477087
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; i+223+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100099021362.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Physical characteristics:
Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 230 x 150 mm leaf [145 x 94 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 7 lines per 10 cm
Script: Partially-vocalised naskh throughout; the scribe is Muḥammad al-Umlayṭī al-Azharī (محمد الأمليطي الأزهري, see f. 223r, line 7(
Ink: Black ink with rubricated headings
Decoration: Red-ruled text frame; red double margins and decorative motifs throughout section of poem (ff. 12r-34r)
Binding: Red leather binding with central blind-tooled floral medallion to front and back covers
Condition: A few stains; repaired damage to edge of f. 1 and ruled frame on f. 2
Marginalia: Almost none
Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 1r, 51r, 194r, 223v)
- Custodial History:
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ʻAlī ibn al-marḥūm al-sharīf Ghālib (علي بن المرحوم الشريف غالب): his ownership inscription, with date 22 Dhū al-Qaʻdah [1]228/16 November 1813 (f. 1r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806-95), 1875
- Information About Copies:
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Editions:
- Tubayq [Ṭaybughā] al-Ashrafī Baklamishī, Ghunyat al-rāmī wa-ghāyat al-marāmī fī ʻilm al-ramy ʻan al-qaws, ed. by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ẓāhirī (Amman, Dār ʻAmmār, 1998)
- Ṭaybughā al-Ashrafī al-Baklamīshī al-Yūnānī, Bughyat al-marām wa-ghāyat al-gharām fī ramy al-sihām, ed. by ʻĀrif Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Ghanī and Ziyād Maḥmūd al-Fayyād (Damascus: Dār Kinān lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2010).
Translation and study:
- Latham, J. D., and W. F. Paterson, Saracen Archery: An English Version and Exposition of a Mameluke Work on Archery (London: The Holland Press, 1970)
- 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 821, p. 557
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)