Nihayat al-su'l, 1371

a manual of horsemanship and military practice.

A horseman with two swords and two small hide shields, one up at his face and the other carried in his hand with a sword. A long-handled mace protrudes at his right knee beneath his outer garment.

folio 136. A horseman with two swords and two small hide shields, one up at his face and the other carried in his hand with a sword.
A long-handled mace protrudes at his right knee beneath his outer garment.

folio 136. 'Illustration of a horseman with two swords and two small hide shields, on up at his face and the other in his hand with the sword'

Title: Nihāyat al-su'l wa-al-umnīyah fī ta'allum a'māl al-furūsīyah Aqṣarā'ī, Muḥammad ibn 'Īsa ibn Ismā'īl al-Ḥanafī [140r] (291/602)
Date: 10 Muḥarram 773 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Written in: Arabic
Extent and Format: Codex; ff. ii+292+ii
Holding Institution: British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Copyright for document: Public Domain
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Executed under the Mamelukes, in Syria or Egypt, 1371AD. British Library, Add. 18866.

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