The Book on Tending Horses
(الکتاب في سياسة الخيل)

Title	The Book on Tending Horses
Title Original	الکتاب في سياسة الخيل
Publication Date:	1000
Publication Place	- [publisher not identified]
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021667366
Record ID	22057393
Date	1000
Sample Text	Al-Kitāb fī siyāsat al-khayl (The book on tending horses) is a short work on horsemanship by an unknown author. The manuscript is incomplete. The surviving portion of the text discusses the desirable characteristics of a horse as well as signs that indicate its good health. It also presents a list of equine ailments (including mange and cancer) and their cures. The text is interspersed with colored illustrations depicting a variety of horses. Each illustration is marked off by a circular border with decorative designs. One of the illustrations, depicting a saddled white horse, provides a map of the ailments afflicting a horse, with each ailment listed next to the part of the animal or the limb that it afflicts-while beyond the circular border a serpent slithers away. This work is undated. This and other similar works on horsemanship resulted in part from the pre-Islamic and Islamic cultural traditions of nomadism and the breeding of horses.
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The Book on Tending Horses

(الکتاب في سياسة الخيل)

Publication Date 1000

Publication Place - [publisher not identified]

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021667366

Record ID 22057393

Date 1000

Sample Text Al-Kitāb fī siyāsat al-khayl (The book on tending horses) is a short work on horsemanship by an unknown author. The manuscript is incomplete. The surviving portion of the text discusses the desirable characteristics of a horse as well as signs that indicate its good health. It also presents a list of equine ailments (including mange and cancer) and their cures. The text is interspersed with colored illustrations depicting a variety of horses. Each illustration is marked off by a circular border with decorative designs. One of the illustrations, depicting a saddled white horse, provides a map of the ailments afflicting a horse, with each ailment listed next to the part of the animal or the limb that it afflicts-while beyond the circular border a serpent slithers away. This work is undated. This and other similar works on horsemanship resulted in part from the pre-Islamic and Islamic cultural traditions of nomadism and the breeding of horses.

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