The Arts of the Lance and Other Mamluk Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Abstract This article provides a description of an Arabic manuscript found among the few manuscripts from the Mamluk period that are kept at the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The manuscript contains a work on the arts of the lance by Ḥusām al-Dīn Lāǧīn al-Ṭarābulusī (d. 738/1338), one of the foremost experts in furūsiyya and, more particularly, on the topic of mayādīn. After giving information about the collection, including the other Mamluk manuscripts kept there, the article provides a detailed description of the work entitled Kitāb tuḥfat al-muǧāhidīn fī l-ʿamal bi-l-mayādīn.