Author
fragment is specified
Publication Date
870 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 14056, ff 1v-10v
Record ID
vdc_100045805361.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
870 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Collection of instructions for military drills for lancers. Each set of instructions for a drill is called a
band
(بند, pl. بنود). The fragment contains 26
bunūd
most of which are attributed to companions of the Prophet. Although no title or author of the fragment is specified, it is probable that its contents are ultimately derived from the lance master Najm al-Dīn al-Aḥdab al-Rammāḥ (نجم الدين الأحدب الرماح, d. 1296; see al-Sarraf, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents',
Mamlūk Studies Review
8.1 [2004], p. 173). For a similar collection of
bunud
explicitly attributed to Najm al-Dīn, see Muḥammad ibn Īsá al-Aqṣarā’ī,
Nihāyat al-su’l
, Ta‘līm 2, Bāb 2 (British Library, Add. MS 18866, ff. 51v-57v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
بند المجموع الكبير
لأبي بكر الصديق رضي الله عنه
حمائلي، عقبية، زندية، قدام.
كفية، ظهرية، دبوقة، مستعصب
Ends (f. 10v, lines 6-10):
... بند التطويب
لف حمائلي، تسلم إلى شمالك استقبله
مسك استوا بضرب دبوقة، استقبله بيدك
اليمين من تحت الرمح بتسريح، وقربصة ونشل
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
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
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Shihab al-Sarraf, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents',
Mamlūk Studies Review
8.1 (2004), pp. 141-200, on pp. 172-74
