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Nihayat al-su’l wa-al-umniyah f? ta‘allum a‘mal al-furusiyah [A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology]
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Muhammad ibn ‘Isa ibn Isma‘il al-Hanaf? al-Aqsars’i]
Title
Nihayat al-su’l wa-al-umniyah f? ta‘allum a‘mal al-furusiyah [A Mamluk manual on horsemanship, military arts and technology]
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Style: Centrepiece made of small tools|Circle; Caption: Right cover and flap doublure; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 14c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Add MS 18866
Place of creation Binding: Egypt
Object history Text: 14c; Egypt or Syria?; Unspecified
Notes Egypt or Syria. Probably originally unsupported sewing structure. Repaired. Purchased at the sale of Sir Thomas Reade at Sotheby's 28 January 1852. Higher resolution images of binding and manuscript can be found on The British Library and Qatar Foundation online digitisation project (forthcoming).
References Duncan Haldane, Islamic Bookbinding, London, 1983, Arab bookbindings, p46.
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