تاريخ النشر
1366 (767H)
النوع
وثيقة
اللغة
العربية
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
نعم
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
300 mm x 210 mm (height x width)
المكتبة
تشيستر بيتي
رقم السجل
Ar 5655.159
موقع المكتبة
Arabic collection
التاريخ
1366 (767H)
ملاحظات
Detached folio, ink, pigments and gold on paper, painting (on verso) and Arabic text, from a set of twelve detached folios and one codex, Cairo, Egypt, dated 1366. Painting: a horseman with two swords, with side-caption: “Image of a horseman with a sword in his left hand, and its tip under his right armpit". First composed in Mamluk Damascus, al-Aqsara'i's well-known military encyclopaedia describes the many skills required for an effective cavalry army, organised in twelve lessons. This painting is from Lesson Three, "On the Use of the Sword", under Method Three, "The Use of Two Swords". There is an extensive Arabic literature on the arts of horsemanship, and this copy (made in Cairo in 1366) is one of the earliest illustrated examples in existence. These arts include the care and training of horses, the correct handling of weapons, and equestrian parade displays for the hippodrome, as well as cavalry formations in battle, just distribution of war booty, and treaty negotiations.
Materyal
Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri
`Umar b. `Abdallah b. `Umar al-Shafi’i, Cairo
Yazı Tipi
Naskh script
