Kitāb qaṭr al-sayl fī amr al-khayl
By: tālīf al-shaykh al-ʻallāmah qāḍī al-quḍāh bi-Dimashq, Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī ...
Contributors: Khalīl, Muḥammad, former owner; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Dimyāṭī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Khalaf, 1217-1306; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1653
Language: ara
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Horses; Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Qaṭr al-sayl fī amr al-khayl
Description: Manuscript is an abridgement of Faḍl al-Khayl by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Khalaf a-Dimyāṭī.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream with watermarks (two crescent moons).  Leaves are loose from binding, the first two and the last two have been repaired, and the title page and other pages show damage from humidity.  Black and red ink on title page, text mainly in black, with titles of chapters and other words rubricated.  Catchwords at bottom of rectos.

Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-341.

Naskhī script; 21 lines in written area, 14 x 9 cm.

Fol. 1a-33b.

Ownership signature of Muḥammad Khalīl on outer margin of last page.

Binding:  Cardboard covered with cloth; leather spine.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.