Author
other two works in the present volume
Publication Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 9265, ff 97r-118v
Record ID
vdc_100139892428.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Incomplete text on horseback manoeuvres with the lance and general warfare (see f. 110v, lines 9-10: I have included in this book what is necessary for those who engage in war...). A note on the volume's second flyleaf (ii-v) attributes this text to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Tabari, active ca 9th century), author of the other two works in the present volume (Or 9265, ff. 1r-55r and Or 9265, ff. 55r-96v).
Contents:
The lesser
kahrad
(Bab al-Kahrad [...] al-Saghir, ff. 97r-102v);
The greater
kahrad
(Grand Caterpillar, ff. 102v-105v);
Fourteen sections (doors) on
bunūd
(solo horseback manoeuvres with the lance, ff. 105v-110v);
A discourse on warfare (ff. 110v-112r);
Thirteen chapters on
al-manāṣib al-ḥarbīyah
(Combat positions: combat simulation between two mounted lancers, ff. 112r-118v);
Beginning of a section on using the dagger (
dabbūs
, pin, f. 118v).
Beginnings (f. 97r, lines 2-4)
The chapter on kahrad, which is the first of the falsehoods, is called kahrad
Al-Saghir, which is the sixth, is the first item in Al-Dabouqah
Outside, and a second also outside, and a third also outside, and his fourth
Inside...
Ends: (f. 118v, lines 11-13):
... The twelfth is a multiplication problem
The thirteenth is a problem, multiplying the fourteenth to the throat
Hit the fifteenth wave hit the sixteenth...
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
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), p. 141-200 (especially pp. 164-65 and n67 and n72).
