MS. Huntington 208 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Horsemanship, Archery, and Didactic poetry

1. ff. 3v-20r
Author: Ḥaytīmī, Abū ʻAlī
Title: Irshād al-ikhwān fī aḥkām al-rihān wa-al-mughālabah

On horsemanship and archery

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Horsemanship
[UAM. 372 (1)]
2. ff. 20v-31v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A tract on horsemanship and archery
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Horsemanship
[UAM. 372 (2)]
3. ff. 32r-40v; 40v-108v
Author: Baklamīshī, Ṭubayq al-Ashrafī
Title: Ghunyat al-rāmī wa-ghāyat al-marām lil-maʻānī

A poem on archery, followed by the authorʼs own commentary Bughyat al-marām wa-ghāyat al-gharām

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 136
[UAM. 372 (3, 4), with corrig. Nicoll p. 579]

Physical Description

Form: codex
18 ff. 12 ff. 9, 69ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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