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Book/Printed Material The Book on Tending Horses.

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Title

  • The Book on Tending Horses.

Summary

  • Al-Kitāb fī siyāsat al-khayl (The book on tending horses) is a short work on horsemanship by an unknown author. The manuscript is incomplete. The surviving portion of the text discusses the desirable characteristics of a horse as well as signs that indicate its good health. It also presents a list of equine ailments (including mange and cancer) and their cures. The text is interspersed with colored illustrations depicting a variety of horses. Each illustration is marked off by a circular border with decorative designs. One of the illustrations, depicting a saddled white horse, provides a map of the ailments afflicting a horse, with each ailment listed next to the part of the animal or the limb that it afflicts-while beyond the circular border a serpent slithers away. This work is undated. This and other similar works on horsemanship resulted in part from the pre-Islamic and Islamic cultural traditions of nomadism and the breeding of horses.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1000.

Headings

  • -  1000
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Codex
  • -  Horsemanship
  • -  Horses
  • -  Horses--Diseases
  • -  Naskh script

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 18 folios : illustrated ; 21.3 x 15.7 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Wellcome Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667366

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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The Book on Tending Horses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1000] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667366/.

APA citation style:

(1000) The Book on Tending Horses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667366/.

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The Book on Tending Horses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1000] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667366/>.