Or 15874 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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.

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.

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.

Further medicinal formulae for treatment of horses, in Urdu.

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.

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.