Or 15874 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Treatises on farriery
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Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
Multiple text frames: black, gold, yellow, red, green and black. Gold and polychrome floral motifs and designs of Central Asian type on most folios.
One horse miniature, f. 275r, measuring 236 x 150 mm.; this depicts a gold-coloured horse with puce bridle etc. and gold bit against a blank background, with a strip of blue sky above and a hilly landscape dotted with bushes, not to scale and blue in colour.
Binding
Red morocco binding with impressed medallions and borders, yellow lines, and spine label reading: D / Ṭibb / (17) / Duldul-nawāznāmah / qalamī.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
2002-04-24
Purchased from Bonhams sale 24 April 2002, lot 120.
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Language(s): Urdu
A treatise in Urdu on equine diseases and their treatment. By ‘Abd al-Qādir of Vellore (Aylūr), composed in 1221/1806-7. The author states in the preface that his work is derived from various reliable sources.
Copied in 1277/1860-61 by Qāsim Khān ibn Aḥmad Khān ibn Ḥasan Khān Muhmand al-Nīknām'ābādī, for Ghulām Rasūl Khān Jam‘dār ibn ‘Abd Allāh Khān Jam‘dār ibn Ḥasan Khān Mandūza’ī.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
11 lines.
Hand(s)
Spindly, rather large nasta‘līq script. Copied by Qāsim Khān ibn Aḥmad Khān ibn Ḥasan Khān Muhmand al-Nīknām'ābādī.
Decoration
Illuminated text openings on f. 1v-2r and 11v-12r. Illuminated poetical dā’irah, f. 9v. Red headings, overlinings, original pagination (139 p).
History
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Language(s): Persian
A Persian treatise on farriery by Ḥāmid ibn ‘Alīm, in 60 chapters (bāb) of which only 58 have headings. The last two, however, are much the longest.
The chapters and their subjects, are listed on f. 74v-76r. Folios 106v-112v contain a chapter comprising medicinal formulae in verse; folios 113r-115v contain talismans.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Angular inelegant nastaʻlīq.
History
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Language(s): Urdu and Persian
Miscellaneous texts, mainly in Urdu, containing remedies for aging and/or ailing horses.
The recipe for treating equine depression (f. 120r) is a later addition.
Title is supplied.
Physical Description
Layout
11 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq
History
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Language(s): Urdu
Further medicinal formulae for treatment of horses, in Urdu.
Physical Description
Layout
15 lines.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq.
History
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A Persian treatise on farriery, translated from an Urdu version of the Sanskrit Salihotra by Khvājah Ḥasan valad-i Khvājah Maḥmūd, of the township (qaṣaba) of Antur, Nagpur. The translation was completed in Muḥarram of an unspecified regnal year: Sāl-i julūs-i humāyūn muṭābiq-i sana (sic).
The work comprises 9 chapters (bāb), which are listed on f. 125v-126r.
The lengthy colophon states that this work was composed at the behest of John Raven in the sūba of Arcot, and confusingly refers to it by the additional title Faras al-favā’id; but this work is very different from the rare illustrated text of that name by Dā’ūd Khān valad-i Yāsīn Khān (BL Or. 14256).
There are two spaces on each page for illustrations, which were never added.
Colophon, f. 237r-v. Copied by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ‘Aẓīm al-Dīn, and completed at Maḥmūd Bandar, known as Firangī-pattah, on 25 Jumādā l-ūlà 1221/10 August 1806.
Physical Description
Layout
13 lines.
Hand(s)
Good clear nastaʻlīq. Copyist: Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ‘Aẓīm al-Dīn
Decoration
Red headings. Text frames: red, red, blue.
History
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A further collection of remedies for equine ailments. A sizeable number of words have been crossed through, a feature found in some other works in the present collection, rendering the text difficult to read.
A summary of teachings in the Sanskrit text , Salihotra, a general treatise on horses and farriery.
The present text comprises eleven bābs, subdivided into faṣls, the contents of which are listed on f. 290r-291r.
Treatise giving remedies for khūbak, another equine ailment. The title is derived from the opening words of the text.
Another treatise on farriery, apparently based on the Sanskrit Salihotra. The actual title is found in the colophon.
Colophon, f. 385r. Completed on 15 Ṣafar 1213/29 July 1798.
Other contents: f. 74r, 113r-115v, 238v-240v, 331r-333r (headed Adviyah barā-yi chakaval va pushtāk), 334v, 335v-340v, 341r-342r, 385r-387r (headed Mutafarriqāt-i adviya házih), 387v-389r: miscellaneous medicines, Arabic talismanic formulae, etc.; those on f. 387r-v are in Urdu.
Physical Description
Layout
Mostly 15 lines
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
History
Additional Information
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