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Or 9015
- Record Id:
- 032-003477091
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477091
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099021814.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108802089.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9015
- Title:
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Anonymous treatise on horsemanship and the arts of the lance
- Scope & Content:
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Unique copy, defective at beginning and end, of a treatise on instruction in horsemanship, written by an anonymous master of the royal barracks for his fellow teachers of trainee mamluks, around the late fourteenth century.
The text contains numerous sections (bābs) on horse-riding, burjās exercises, the training of kings and nobles, warfare skills, combat and war between Muslims and non-Muslims, and on the famous Arab and Turkish furūsīyah teachers. The main focus is on the arts of the lance: handling the lance, solo combat manoeuvres (bunūd, بنود) including the seventy-two described by Najm al-Dīn al-Aḥdab (نجم الدين الأحدب, d. ca 1295), five further solo bunūd and twenty-one 'dispatches' (تساريح); simulated combat fencing between two horsemen (al-manāsib al-ḥarbīyah, المناصب الحربية); and simulated combat exercises between teams (al-mawādīn, الموادين).
A section at the end of the volume explains and describes the group combat exercises (باب شرح الموادين وذكرها وأساميها) and other types of military manoeuvres, with diagrams added possibly in another hand (ff. 80v-84v).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4):
... ووعد المجاهدين في سبيله بالمقام الأعلى في الجنان
ومتعهم في القصور بلقائف الحور والولدان وذلك
قوله تعالى والذين جاهدوا فينا لنهدينهم سبلنا وإن الله
لمع المحسنين…
Ends (f. 84v, lines 7-9):
ترتيب ثمانية صفوف وكل صف في وسطه مقدمين ويكونوا فارسين
عارفين ولهم خصم قدامهم فإذا حمل الخصم عليهم فيخرج كل صف
يطوف يمينًا وشمالًا ويترتبوا وراء خصمهم كما كانوا في الأول
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003477091", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 9015: Anonymous treatise on horsemanship and the arts of the lance" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003477091
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003477091
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+84+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100099021814.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 17th century-18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper with watermarks
Dimensions: 248 x 177 mm leaf [178 x 113 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. Previous crossed-out British Museum foliation and evident re-organisation of the text
Ruling: Misṭarah; 8 lines per page; vertical spacing 4 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh in a number of different hands
Ink: Black ink with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: Blue half leather binding
Condition: Waterstain to tail margin and smudges towards front of volume
Marginalia: Pen trials (f. 2v). Ff. 80v-84v possibly an addition; see Content
Seals: British Museum stamp (f. 1r and 50v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Isaac Benjamin Shlomo Ezekiel Yahuda (bookdealer at Cairo and brother of Abraham Shalom Yahuda, d. 1951), 8 October 1921
- Publications:
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Study:
- Al-Sarraf, Shihab, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamluk Studies Review, 8 (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, The University of Chicago, 2004), pp. 141-200 (see p. 199)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)