Image Number:
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Bookreader ArabicMS_59
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Reference Number:
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Arabic MS 59
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Parent Work Title:
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Example of battle in the movement of chess-contenders
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Date Created:
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1446 [850 AH]
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Description:
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Treatise on the game of chess. Writing is a handsome old Naskhi. Gilt title page. Rubrication, headings are mostly in blue. In the text there are over fifty square diagrams of problems, and ten in circular arrangement. There is an English note on the book on the fly-leaf by Rev. G. C. Renouard in a memorandum written for John Fiott. Fifteen lines to the page.
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Language Code:
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ara
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Language:
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Arabic
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Subject:
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Chess--Early works to 1800
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Leather
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Item Height:
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174 mm
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Item Width:
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130 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Bland, Nathaniel, former owner
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Mingana, Alphonse. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2014-01-23
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2014-01
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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