The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
21201
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Published 2009
NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages in
order, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”
for a Western manuscript.
This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in
Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been
digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at
the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For
further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact
us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department
of Manuscripts.
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
21201
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Published 2009
Form: Illustration
fol. 93a:
Title: Dealing with a horse having a hysteria attack
Form: Illustration
fol. 94a:
Title: Riding a horse
Form: Illustration
fol. 95a:
Title: Calming a horse
Form: Illustration
fol. 96a:
Title: Feeding a horse
Form: Illustration
fol. 97a:
Title: A healthy horse
Form: Illustration
Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Binding The binding is original.
Green leather (no flap) with a centrally positioned vase with
flowers
Bibliography Türkiye yazmalari toplu kataloğu (The Union Catalogue
of Manuscripts in Turkey), Vol. 1. (Ankara: Kütüphaneler
Genel Müdürlüğü, 1979), no. 110.
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fol. 83a:
Title: A horse with its ears turned back when suffering
from an illness called hetk
Form: Illustration
fol. 84a:
Title: A horse with his ears up when suffering from cold
Form: Illustration
fol. 85a:
Title: Stretching a horse's neck when suffering from
cold
Form: Illustration
fol. 86a:
Title: A horse with its lowered head after the application
of medicine for cramp
Form: Illustration
fol. 87a:
Title: Dealing with a horse suffering from a worm in his
stomach
Form: Illustration
fol. 88a:
Title: A horse urinating with his erected penis
Form: Illustration
fol. 89a:
Title: Raising a horse's head after the application of
medicine for a sticky and runny nose
Form: Illustration
fol. 90a:
Title: Holding a horse's head upright after the
application of medicine for swollen throat and chest
Form: Illustration
fol. 91a:
Title: Healing a horse suffering from flue
Form: Illustration
fol. 92a:
Title: Healing a horse suffering from an illness called
sikag
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fol. 72a:
Title: Leading a horse with quick steps, then slowing
down
Form: Illustration
fol. 73a:
Title: Washing a mare
Form: Illustration
fol. 74a:
Title: Healing a horse suffering from colic with old wine
and olive oil
Form: Illustration
fol. 75a:
Title: Removing a leech from a horse’s mouth
Form: Illustration
fol. 76a:
Title: Horse training
Form: Illustration
fol. 77a:
Title: A healthy horse
Form: Illustration
fol. 78a:
Title: Bandaging the head of a horse
Form: Illustration
fol. 79a:
Title: Colt training
Form: Illustration
fol. 80a:
Title: A healthy horse
Form: Illustration
fol. 81a:
Title: A horse with the swelling of the veins on his
calves
Form: Illustration
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Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions 15.5 cm wide by 21.5 cm high
Written surface 9.0 cm wide by 15.0 cm high
Layout Columns: 1
Ruled lines: 15
Framing lines in gold and black
Contents fols. 1b - 97a:
Title: Tuḥfat ül-fārisīn fī aḥvāl-i ḫuyūl il-mucāhidīn
Incipit:
Text note: Work dedicated to Sultan Abdülmecid (reg.
1255 AH / 1839 CE -- 1277 AH / 1861 CE) (fol. 3b, line
6); main text preceded by a detailed table of contents
(fols. 1b-3a); text ends on fol. 67a
Hand note: Written in ruqʿah script with rubricated text
for Arabic quotations
Decoration note: Thirty illustrations; decorated
headpiece on fol. 3b; framing lines in gold and black
Decoration fol. 3b:
Title: Illuminated incipit
Form: Incipit
Label: This illuminated incipit page has an unusually
designed headpiece comprised of a star and crescent
with flags, two trumpets, and a drum.
fol. 69a:
Title: Washing a mare
Form: Illustration
fol. 70a:
Title: Riding a horse in training
Form: Illustration
fol. 71a:
Title: Riding a horse in training
Form: Illustration
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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.661
Descriptive Title Book on horses
Text title Tuḥfat ül-fārisīn fī aḥvāl-i ḫuyūl il-mucāhidīn
Vernacular:
Author As-written name: Aḥmed ʿAṭā Ṭayyārzāde
Name, in vernacular:
Abstract This is an illustrated Ottoman copy of a Turkish work on
the training and care of warhorses (Tuḥfat ül-fārisīn fī aḥvāl-
i ḫuyūl il-mucāhidīn) by Aḥmed ʿAṭā Ṭayyārzāde (d. 1294
AH / 1877 CE). The text was written in ruq`ah script by
Şaker Muhammed in 1271 AH / 1854-5 CE. The main text
is preceded by a detailed table of contents (fols. 1b-3a), and
on fol. 3b it states that the work was dedicated to Sultan
Abdülmecid (reg. 1255 AH / 1839 CE -- 1277 AH / 1861
CE). There are thirty illustrations of horses at the end of the
manuscript.
Date [12]71 AH / 1854-5 CE
Origin Turkey
Scribe As-written name: Şaker Muhammed
Name, in vernacular:
Form Book
Genre Scientific
Language The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman
(1500-1928). The secondary language of this manuscript is
Arabic.
Support material Paper
Buff European wove paper
Extent Foliation: i+97+i
Original pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals from 1-134
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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in
Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been
digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at
the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For
further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact
us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department
of Manuscripts.
A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.661, Book on horses
Title: Tuḥfat ül-fārisīn fī aḥvāl-i ḫuyūl il-mucāhidīn
Published by: The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201
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Published 2011
