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Add MS 20736

Record Id:
032-003477101
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032-003477101
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 20736
Title:

Two treatises on horsemanship

Scope & Content:

Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces.

Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the transcription of an Ottoman Turkish text entitled Risale-yi Şecaiye (رساله شجاعیه ) which runs intermittently from f. 37r, with the continuation text indicated by catchwords (ff. 37r-82r).

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

Digitised Content:
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100099022741.0x000001
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Languages:
Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
ca 16th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 270 x 180 mm leaf [ 212 x 137 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh (Arabic text), fully vocalised to f. 24, mainly unvocalised thereafter; Divani (Ottoman Turkish text)

Ink: Black ink with rubricated headings

Decoration: Illustrated with thirty-seven drawings (see Content)

Binding: Black leather (Ottoman) binding with central medallion, pendants and corner stamps

Condition: Stains, repairs and grime at front of volume; Waterstains to gutter and tail margins

Marginalia: Occasional interlinear translations in Turkish, occasional pen trials (see f. 48r)

Seals: British Museum stamp: ff. 2r, 9r, 21r, 96v

Custodial History:
  • William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster (1824– 1901)
  • George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842)
  • Inscription, with date 123[0]/1814-15 (f. 2r)
  • Ibrahim Khalifah, a soldier (جندي باشي [...] ابراهيم خليفة), his ownership statement (f. 2r)
  • ʿAbd Allāh (ibn Sulaymān) al-Dāwūdī (عبد الله ابن سليمان الداوودي), his ownership statements (ff. 2r, 38r)
  • Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (حسين [...] الحلبي), his reading inscription (f. 2r)
  • Khusraw Chāwush ('Officer') ibn ʿAbd al-Mannān (Hüsrev Çavuş İbn-i Abdülmennan, خسرو چاوش ابن عبد المنان), his inscription (f. 96r)
Source of Acquisition:

Purchased at the sale of the Earl of Munster's library at Hodgson's [Hodgson & Co book auctioneers], 27 March 1855 (lot 1421).

Finding Aids:

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 1157, p. 529

Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1888), p. 128

Publications:

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

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)