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Or 12830
- Record Id:
- 032-003477096
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477096
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099022516.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100141531735.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12830
- Title:
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Ghars al-anshāb fī al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غرس الأنشاب في الرمي والنشاب
Suyūṭī سيوطي
- Scope & Content:
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A compilation of hadiths, reports, verses and comments on the subject of archery by the prolific Egyptian jurist and historian Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). This work (see title on ff. 1r, line 2, and 1v, line 7) covers topics including the construction and use of the bow and arrow, excerpts on the science of archery referencing al-Ṭabarī (الطبري, given as al-Ṭabaristānī [الطبرستاني]), archery terminology, and riddles (لغز) relating to the bow.
This text preserves sections from Awthaq al-Asbāb fī al-Ramy bi-al-Nushshāb (أوثق الأسباب في الرمي بالنشاب) by ‘Izz al-Dīn ibn Jamā‘ah (عز الدين ابن جماعة, d. 1416), an earlier archery treatise otherwise lost, as well as the entire text of a unique maqāmah on the bow in rhymed prose, by Ismāʿīl ibn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Isbahānī (إسماعيل بن جمال الدين الإسبهاني, fl. 6th/12th century).
The copy was completed on 4 Muḥarram 918 (22 March 1512), seven years after the death of the author (see colophon, below, f. 35v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي جعل الرمي بالسهام
أفضل عدة للجهاد وحث على تعلمه
ووعد عليه بالازدياد...
Ends (f. 35v, lines 2-8):
... ويشهد له ما أخرجه
الدَيلمي من حديث ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما
مرفوعًا ما مد الناس أيديهم إلى شيء
من السلاح إلا وللقوس عليه فضل والله
أعلم وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وصلى
الله على سيدنا محمد
وآله وصحبه وسلم
Colophon (f. 35v, lines 9-13):
ووافق الفراغ منه
يوم الخميس
رابع المحرم
افتتاح
سنة ٩١٨
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003477096
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003477096
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+35+xviii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100099022516.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1512
- End Date:
- 1512
- Date Range:
- 4 Muḥarram 918
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper with watermarks and 'Z' countermark
Dimensions: 209 x 130 mm leaf [131 x 69 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and text frame in red
Decoration: Illuminated opening (f. 1v), red double-ruled frame around text area throughout
Binding: British Museum orange half-leather binding
Condition: Some erasure of text due to a large waterstain affecting the whole volume, worse towards the end. Some paint flaking off illuminated heading (f. 1r).
Marginalia: Almost none
Seals: British Museum stamp on verso of third end flyleaf (v-v)
- Custodial History:
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- Sharīf Ghālib ibn Sharīf Zayd al-ʿAbd, Amir of Mecca [?] (أمير مكة شريف غالب ابن شريف زيد العبد): his note, with date 1129/1716-17 (f. 1r);
- Erased and illegible ownership note, with date in Eastern Arabic numerals '77' (f. 1r);
- Amīr al-Umarāʾ al-Sayyid Khayr al-Dīn (أمير الأمراء السيد خير الدين): his purchase note with date Ramaḍān 1285/December 1868-January 1869 (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Acquired by the British Museum, 1963
- Publications:
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Studies:
Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 2, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East; volume 117/2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 168
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 pp. 152, 171)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)