Two treatises on horsemanship

Name: Two treatises on horsemanship
Author: catchwords

Title	Two treatises on horsemanship
Author	catchwords
Publication Date:	ca 16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Book
Language	ara,ota
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	1
Physical Dimensions	270 x 180 mm
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	Add MS 20736
Record ID	vdc_100099022741.0x000001
Library Location	British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date	ca 16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the transcription of an Ottoman Turkish text entitled Risale-yi Şecaiye (رساله شجاعیه ) which runs intermittently from f. 37r, with the continuation text indicated by catchwords (ff. 37r-82r).
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 1157, p. 529 Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1888), p. 128
Edinme Kaynağı	Purchased at the sale of the Earl of Munster's library at Hodgson's [Hodgson & Co book auctioneers], 27 March 1855 (lot 1421).
Gruplandırıldığı Yer	Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills 188 images Ref: Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r Risale-yi Şecaiye رساله شجاعیه 32 images Ref: Add MS 20736, ff 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r
Köken	William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster (1824– 1901) George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842) Inscription, with date 123[0]/1814-15 (f. 2r) Ibrahim Khalifah, a soldier (جندي باشي [...] ابراهيم خليفة), his ownership statement (f. 2r) ʿAbd Allāh (ibn Sulaymān) al-Dāwūdī (عبد الله ابن سليمان الداوودي), his ownership statements (ff. 2r, 38r) Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (حسين [...] الحلبي), his reading inscription (f. 2r) Khusraw Chāwush ('Officer') ibn ʿAbd al-Mannān (Hüsrev Çavuş İbn-i Abdülmennan, خسرو چاوش ابن عبد المنان), his inscription (f. 96r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça	Study: Al-Sarraf, Shihab, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamluk Studies Review, 8 (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, The University of Chicago, 2004), pp. 141-200

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Two treatises on horsemanship

Author catchwords

Publication Date ca 16th century (CE, Gregorian)

Type Book

Language ara,ota

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 1

Physical Dimensions 270 x 180 mm

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID Add MS 20736

Record ID vdc_100099022741.0x000001

Library Location British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Date ca 16th century (CE, Gregorian)

Notes Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the transcription of an Ottoman Turkish text entitled Risale-yi Şecaiye (رساله شجاعیه ) which runs intermittently from f. 37r, with the continuation text indicated by catchwords (ff. 37r-82r).

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 1157, p. 529 Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1888), p. 128

Edinme Kaynağı Purchased at the sale of the Earl of Munster's library at Hodgson's [Hodgson & Co book auctioneers], 27 March 1855 (lot 1421).

Gruplandırıldığı Yer Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills 188 images Ref: Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r Risale-yi Şecaiye رساله شجاعیه 32 images Ref: Add MS 20736, ff 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r

Köken William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster (1824– 1901) George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842) Inscription, with date 123[0]/1814-15 (f. 2r) Ibrahim Khalifah, a soldier (جندي باشي [...] ابراهيم خليفة), his ownership statement (f. 2r) ʿAbd Allāh (ibn Sulaymān) al-Dāwūdī (عبد الله ابن سليمان الداوودي), his ownership statements (ff. 2r, 38r) Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (حسين [...] الحلبي), his reading inscription (f. 2r) Khusraw Chāwush ('Officer') ibn ʿAbd al-Mannān (Hüsrev Çavuş İbn-i Abdülmennan, خسرو چاوش ابن عبد المنان), his inscription (f. 96r)

Seçilmiş kaynakça Study: Al-Sarraf, Shihab, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamluk Studies Review, 8 (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, The University of Chicago, 2004), pp. 141-200