Horseman brandishing a sword, from Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship (Nihayat al-su’l wa al-umniya fi ta‘allum ‘amal al-furusiyya) by al-Aqsara'i
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- Object no.:
- Ar 5655.146
- Object name:
- Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
- Title:
- Horseman brandishing a sword, from Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship (Nihayat al-su’l wa al-umniya fi ta‘allum ‘amal al-furusiyya) by al-Aqsara'i
- Scribe and production place:
- `Umar b. `Abdallah b. `Umar al-Shafi’i
Cairo
- Object category:
- Manuscript
- Collection:
- Arabic collection
- Production date:
- 1366 (767H)
- Dimensions:
- 300 mm x 213 mm (height x width)
- Material:
- Paper (material) Pigment (material) Ink (material) Gold
- Language:
- Arabic (language)
- Script type:
- Naskh script
- Description:
- Detached folio, ink, pigments and gold on paper, painting (on recto) and Arabic text, from a set of twelve detached folios and one codex, Cairo, Egypt, dated 1366. Painting: a horseman brandishing a sword, with side-caption: "Image of a horseman with a sword in his hand and his sleeve wound over his hand as he rises out of his saddle and strikes with the sword". First composed in Mamluk Damascus, al-Aqsara'i's well-known military encyclopaedia describes the many skills required for an effective cavalry army, organised in twelve lessons. This painting is from Lesson Three, "On the Use of the Sword". There is an extensive Arabic literature on the arts of horsemanship, and this copy (made in Cairo in 1366) is one of the earliest illustrated examples in existence. These arts include the care and training of horses, the correct handling of weapons, and equestrian parade displays for the hippodrome, as well as cavalry formations in battle, just distribution of war booty, and treaty negotiations.
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