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

This article provides a description of an Arabic manuscript found among the few manu-scripts 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 Husam al-Din Lagin al-Tarabulusi (d. 738/1338), one of the foremost experts in furasiyya and, more particularly, on the topic of mayadin. After giv-ing information about the collection, including the other Mamluk manuscripts kept there, the article provides a detailed description of the work entitled Kitab tuhfat al-mugahidin fi l-?amal bi-l-mayadin.