Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1764-1827 or 1828
  عطار، محمد بن حسين،
• ʻAṭṭār, Muḥammad al-Dimashqī
  عطار، محمد الدمشقي

Other related names

• Makiya, Mohamed, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969738073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578349

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

A.H. 1233 (1818)

Place

Syria?

Summary

Short treatise on artillery containing an introduction, three topics, and a conclusion (f. 2r). Contains eight diagrams (f. 4r, 5r, 7v, 10r, 11v, 12r, 13r, 21v) and two tables (f. 14v, 19v); composition dates given in fractions (f. 2v and 21r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Contains 8 diagrams (f. 4r, 5r, 7v, 10r, 11v, 12r, 13r, 21v) and two tables (f. 14v, 19v).

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Mohamed Makiya.
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's (South Kensington) as part of the Mohamed Makiya collection, 18 April 2016, lot 172.
   

Subjects topical

• Artillery--History
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)

Licenses

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Fatḥ al-ẓāhir wa-al-naṣr al-bāhir fī fann ramī al-ṭūb wa-al-qunburah.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Sketches of heads in helmets
• fol. 4r — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Table
• fol. 19v — Table
• fol. 21v — Diagram