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Or 9265, ff 97r-118v
- Record Id:
- 040-003711537
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477089
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109630296.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139892428.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9265, ff 97r-118v
- Title:
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Untitled treatise on the arts of the lance and warfare
Ṭabarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
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Incomplete text on horseback manoeuvres with the lance and general warfare (see f. 110v, lines 9-10: وقد ضمنت هذا الكتاب ما يوجب لمتعاطي الحرب...). A note on the volume's second flyleaf (ii-v) attributes this text to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century), author of the other two works in the present volume (Or 9265, ff. 1r-55r and Or 9265, ff. 55r-96r).
Contents:
- The lesser kahrad (باب الكهرد [...] الصغير, ff. 97r-102v);
- The greater kahrad (الكهرد الكبير, ff. 102v-105v);
- Fourteen sections (أبواب) on bunūd (solo horseback manoeuvres with the lance, ff. 105v-110v);
- A discourse on warfare (ff. 110v-112r);
- Thirteen chapters on al-manāṣib al-ḥarbīyah (المناصب الحربية: combat simulation between two mounted lancers, ff. 112r-118v);
- Beginning of a section on using the dagger (dabbūs, دبوس, f. 118v).
Begins (f. 97r, lines 2-4)
باب الكهرد وهو أول التباطيل يسمي الكهرد
الصغير وهو السادس بند الدبوقة أوله
برا وثانيه أيضًا برا وثالثه أيضًا برا ؤرابعه
جوا...
Ends: (f. 118v, lines 11-13):
... الثاني عشر مشكل ضرب
الثالث عشر مشكل ضرب الرابع عشر الى حلق
ضرب الخامس عشر موجه ضرب السادس عشر...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003477089
040-003711537 - Is part of:
- Or 9265 : Three treatises on archery and horsemanship
Or 9265, ff 97r-118v : Untitled treatise on the arts of the lance and warfareṬabarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003477089[0003]/040-003711537
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 9265
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 96v-118v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100139892428.0x000001
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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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Study:
- Al-Sarraf, Shihab, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamluk Studies Review, 8 (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, The University of Chicago, 2004), p. 141-200 (especially pp. 164-65 and n67 and n72).
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