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<dl><dd>[2], 92 p., bound, (17 lines) : 19 cm</dd>
<dd>Manuscript</dd>
<dd>Arabic</dd>
<dd>Title given on title page (p. 1); variant title given at start of text (p. 2 lines 4-5): Kitāb fī ʻilm al-farāsah wa-maʻrifat al-khayl al-jiyād wa-amāīrhum wa-ashāīrhum (translation: The book on the art of horsemanship and the knowledge of first-rate horses and their characteristics and features)</dd>
<dd>Author's name given on title page (p. 1) as: Imām ʻAlī; this is an incorrect attribution to the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Tālib, who died in 661</dd>
<dd>According to the colophon (p. 92 lines 11-15), the copy was completed on 29 Kānūn al-thānī i.e. Jan. 1830; (the year is given according to the Western calendar); Sommer (Schullian &amp; Sommer. Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS, 1950) gives year incorrectly as "830" (i.e. 1426)</dd>
<dd>Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda (ELS 1731)</dd>
<dd>Scribe named in colophon: Ḥannā ibn Jurjīs Ṣarūf, who states that he worked in Damascus, Syria</dd>
<dd>The beginning of the text corresponds to that in Berlin MS We. 1782, fol. 37a-52a (cat. entry 6187), whose title corresponds to the variant title of this copy; this copy appears to be a longer treatise with a different ending from the Berlin copy</dd>
<dd>Catchwords, purplish-red rubrications; text written within frames of single purplish-red lines</dd>
<dd>Various doodlings, drawings and jottings have been added later in the margins, such as the small human figure on p. 55</dd>
<dd>Preliminary pages [1] and [2] are blank except for penciled notes regarding the author and title and other penciled doodlings</dd>
<dd>Paper is watermarked and has visible laid and single chain lines</dd>
<dd>Bound in tan leather modern library binding; modern paper pastedowns and endpapers</dd>
<dd>Described in: Schullian &amp; Sommer. Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS., 1950, A71</dd>
<dd>A treatise on the characteristics and management of horses, including compound remedies useful in various ailments; the treatise comprises four chapters (al-juzʼ) on the nature of horses, symptoms of various local and general diseases, virtue of refusal to move, simple and compound remedies, and treatment of diseases</dd>
<dd>Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20170202</dd>
<dd>digitized. 2018</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Horses; Horse Diseases -- drug therapy; Veterinary Drugs; Medicine, Arabic</div>
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