Item Summary

Treatise on horses and horse-racing written in Cairo, 729/1329 for the library of the Mamlūk Sulṭān al-Nāṣir (684-741/1285-1341). The author was one of the secretaries of the court.

Descriptive Information

Title
ادراك السول في مسابقة الخيول برسم الخزانة الشريفة السلطانية الملية الناصرية الناصرية(!) عمرها الله تعالى بدوام ايامه / من انشا العبد الفقير المعترف بالتقصير الحسين الحسيني كاتب الدرج الشريف
Transliterated Title
Idrāk al-sūl fī musābaqat al-khuyūl bi-rasm al-Khizānah al-sharīfah al-sulṭānīyah al-malikīyah al-Nāṣirīyah al-Nāṣirīyah(!) ʻamarahā Allāh taʻālá bi-dawām ayyāmihi / min inshā al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtaraf bi-al-taqṣīr al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī kātib al-daraj al-sharīf.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 12G
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr76f3470
Publisher
[Cairo?, 1329]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1329
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 18, i leaves: paper ; 297 x 205 (210 x 160) mm. bound to 303 x 215 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Malik al-Nāṣir ibn Qalāwun al-Malik al-Manṣūr (fol. 1a). Ex-libris of Robert Garrett on the pastedown of the upper cover. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1066
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SN II 166
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from title page (fol. 1a, muḥaqqaq in gold outlined in black ; blue and red for vocalization and diacritical signs ; statement of responsibility in naskh).
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 6 lines per page. Written in muḥaqqaq in black ink ; the text is vocalized. Entries in gold outlined in black with red and blue for vocalization and diacritical signs. Circle in gold outlined in black for text-stops.
Origin: According to colophon, copied by its author, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, Kātib al-daraj al-sharīf, 6 Ramaḍān 729 [July 4, 1329] (fol. 18a). The copy was made for the Khizānah of al-Nāṣir (title page, fol. 1a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الحمد لله الذي جعل الخبر بنواصع الخيل معقودا ...[4ب] ... اما بعد فان الله تعالى منح مولانا السلطان [5أ] المالك الملك الناصر عظيم المااثر وفخيم المفاخر
Explicit: ان اطالت القول فهى مقرة او اسهبت فهي موجزة امين امين امين الحمد لله وحده وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلامه حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Discovery Information

Subject
Horses—Arab countries—Early works to 1800
Horses—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e5338c46-821a-4027-9cd5-a4269e5bef2d/manifest