Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
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The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. vi+124+vi. It was created in 870. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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- 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
- 19 imagesRef: Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v16 imagesRef: Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v210 imagesRef: 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
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- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- Add MS 14056
- 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)
- 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
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- Title
- Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:vi-v, 1r, 124r:124v, vii-r:xii-v, back-i
- Author
- Please see item description
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- Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
- Title
- Anonymous collection of lance drills
- Pages
- 1v:10v
- Author
- Please see item description
- Usage terms
- Public Domain
- Reference
- Add MS 14056, ff 11r-18v
- Title
- Fragment of an anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance
- Pages
- 11r:18v
- Author
- Please see item description
- Usage terms
- Public Domain
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- Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v
- Title
- Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
- Pages
- 19r:123v
- Author
- Please see item description
- Usage terms
- Public Domain