"Horse assets".. An exhibition documenting the glory of equestrianism and its rare treasures in a library "founder"
Launches Horses and Equestrianism includes manuscripts, anecdotes, pictures, documents, Islamic miniatures, historical publications, and illustrated books.
Since its establishment 40 years ago, the library has worked to care for this authentic heritage field, and established a special center for equestrianism that includes more than 12 thousand diverse items, and includes the most prominent and rare Arab and foreign books on horses.
Abbas Pasha I’s manuscript
The exhibition includes collections of the most important collectibles. The library, including: The manuscript of Abbas Pasha I. This manuscript, which a scientific delegation began writing by Abbas Pasha in the year (1848 AD), is considered very important in its material and content, as it dealt in detail and documented the subject of horses among the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, both the desert people and the people of the metropolis. We find in this precious manuscript the names of purebred horses, the names of their stalls, the types of their breeds, and the names of their owners, breeders, and merchants who are keen to Buying and acquiring them, and the historical information it contains.
The library also displays the gilded illustrated book: Oriental Horses, which is among its rare possessions, by the author: Waclaw Rzewski, dating back to 1821 in Arabic and French.
The book is considered one of the oldest Western studies on Arabian horses, as the book includes more than 400 pictures describing desert culture, musical instruments, and the care of the origins of Arabian horses, as well as pictures, maps, and manuscripts. Rare ancient and modern.
Pictures of rare horses
In addition, it displays a large collection of rare pictures of horses, taken by the British Princess Alice during her visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the year 1938 AD. The exhibition also contains anecdotes and international drawings about horses, including the book of drawings by Ahmed Kamal Pasha and the English orientalist who discovered the world tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
The exhibition also includes what Ibn Bishr wrote about horses in the first and second Saudi states in a manuscript. (The title of glory in the history of Najd) and an encyclopedia " knighthood" Bibliographic studies are considered the first paper-based statistical work on horses and equestrianism in the world. The book: (Pure Arabian Horses) also presents when the Russian Princess Shcherbatova, in 1900 AD, visited the Arab region, conducted a census of the breeds of Arabian horses, and monitored their types, colors, and sizes, and the most famous families, clans, and tribes that own them.
On the other hand, the library displays pictures of the Equestrian Center. In the library, there is a collection of Islamic coins and miniatures of Islamic art about horses that the library owns, in addition to artistic and visual paintings, and short films about horses and equestrianism.
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