Ghars al-anshāb fī al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb غرس الأنشاب في الرمي والنشاب Suyūṭī سيوطي [‎v-r] (86/122)

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A compilation of hadiths, reports, verses and comments on the subject of archery by the prolific Egyptian jurist and historian Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). This work (see title on ff. 1r, line 2, and 1v, line 7) covers topics including the construction and use of the bow and arrow, excerpts on the science of archery referencing al-Ṭabarī (الطبري, given as al-Ṭabaristānī [الطبرستاني]), archery terminology, and riddles (لغز) relating to the bow.

This text preserves sections from Awthaq al-Asbāb fī al-Ramy bi-al-Nushshāb (أوثق الأسباب في الرمي بالنشاب) by ‘Izz al-Dīn ibn Jamā‘ah (عز الدين ابن جماعة, d. 1416), an earlier archery treatise otherwise lost, as well as the entire text of a unique maqāmah on the bow in rhymed prose, by Ismāʿīl ibn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Isbahānī (إسماعيل بن جمال الدين الإسبهاني, fl. 6th/12th century).

The copy was completed on 4 Muḥarram 918 (22 March 1512), seven years after the death of the author (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , below, f. 35v).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):

الحمد لله الذي جعل الرمي بالسهام

أفضل عدة للجهاد وحث على تعلمه

ووعد عليه بالازدياد...

Ends (f. 35v, lines 2-8):

... ويشهد له ما أخرجه

الدَيلمي من حديث ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما

مرفوعًا ما مد الناس أيديهم إلى شيء

من السلاح إلا وللقوس عليه فضل والله

أعلم وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل وصلى

الله على سيدنا محمد

وآله وصحبه وسلم

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 35v, lines 9-13):

ووافق الفراغ منه

يوم الخميس

رابع المحرم

افتتاح

سنة ٩١٨

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. iv+35+xviii

Physical characteristics

Material: Western laid paper with watermarks and 'Z' countermark

Dimensions: 209 x 130 mm leaf [131 x 69 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings and text frame in red

Decoration: Illuminated opening (f. 1v), red double-ruled frame around text area throughout

Binding: British Museum orange half-leather binding

Condition: Some erasure of text due to a large waterstain affecting the whole volume, worse towards the end. Some paint flaking off illuminated heading (f. 1r).

Marginalia: Almost none

Seals: British Museum stamp on verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of third end flyleaf (v-v)

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Arabic in Arabic script

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