Goobi - ba0d8 - 2020-08-02 18:16:45+0000
Goobi
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.
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
Ar 5655.146
Ar_5655_146
Arabic collection
Arabic (language)
Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex/Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Approved Place 2018/Africa/Syria/Damascus
Approved Place 2018/Africa/Egypt/Cairo
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Naskh script
1366 (767H)
1366
1348
1366
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Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold
Paper (material)
Pigment (material)
Ink (material)
Gold
GOOD
300 mm x 213 mm (height x width)
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`Umar b. `Abdallah b. `Umar al-Shafi’i
`Umar b. `Abdallah b. `Umar al-Shafi’i
Cairo
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