Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship

Content

(1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v);

(2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v);

(3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. vi+124+vi

It is grouped into

Anonymous collection of lance drills

19 images

Ref: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v

Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance

16 images

Ref: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v

Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة

210 images

Ref: Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 265 x 180 mm leaf [160 x 100 mm (ff. 1v-9v), 190 x 115 mm (f. 10r-10v), 180 x 115 mm (ff. 11r-18v), 185 x 120 mm (ff. 19r-123v) written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 11 lines per page, vertical spacing 7 lines per 10 cm (ff. 1v-9v); 9 lines per page, vertical spacing 5 lines per 10 cm (f. 10r-10v); 13 lines per page, vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 11r-18v); 15 lines per page, vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 19r-123v)

Script: Naskh ; the scribe of ff. 19r-123v is Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Majlis al-‘Ālī al-Sayfī Burdbak al-Muḥammadī Ra’s Nawbat al-Nuwab al-Ẓāhirī (محمد ناصر الدين بن المجلس العالي السيفي بردبك المحمدي رأس نوبة الـنوب [؟] الظاهري, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 123v)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red, some headings and punctuation in gold (ff. 1v-18v), some headings and overlinings in green (ff. 37r-54v)

Binding: Brown leather case binding with blind tooling

Condition: Minor soiling to lower edge corners

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: None

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 14056

History of this record

Date(s)

870 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Cairo?

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased at the sale of the Earl of Munster's library, 6 April 1843 (lot 153)

Related material

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 1156, pp. 528-29

Subjects

Military art and science -- Early works to 1800

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