Арабские шпоры
Походы французов в Африке, и нынешнее состояние варварийских областей // Сын отечества, Том 4. 1838
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Плоские стремена, кстати, тоже использовались в качестве шпор. У них края затачивали.
Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa. From the papers of R. Tull. 1817. P.50
Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton. Narratives of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. 1826.
A. Locher. With Star and Crescent: A Full and Authentic Account of a Recent Journey with a Caravan from Bombay to Constantinope. 1889
William Tweedie. The Arabian Horse, His Country and People. 1894
Murray G.W. Sons Of Ishmael. A Study of the Egyptian Bedouin. 1935
Here and there in the Eastern Desert, the Beja still point out to the traveller large stones with a “waist” to them, “to which the Arabs of old tied their horses,” but the nomads are all camel-riders nowadays, and the horse only survives among the sedentary Arabs of the Mediterranean coast. The Sinai Arabs have no horses of their own, for they have nothing to feed them on, but show great interest whenever one crosses the frontier. Even in Southern Palestine, the Arab steed is a sorry-looking animal, for the Arab cares very little for the points of a horse and much for his breeding. He thinks that the offspring of two well-bred horses, however wretched in appearance, is bound to turn out well, while a good-looking but badly-bred horse only inspires him with distrust as to its progeny. There the Arab usually rides his horse without a bit. There is a headstall of embroidered homespun, and a chain like a snaflle is bound about its head to which is attached a hair or woollen rope. Voice and knee are all the Arab needs or should need to guide it with. ... In the old raiding days, horses were always used to fight from; being led besides their masters’ camels till the actual moment of attack.
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The Western Arab rides the Barb, ugly in comparison with the Arab horse, but a strong serviceable hack that generally walks its master to wherever he wants to go. If it is to a wedding, the guest on arrival scrapes the beast with the edge of his square iron stirrups and dashes furiously up and down in front of the wedding tents. At the end of each gallop, the horse is pulled to its haunches as the roof of his mouth feels the prod of the iron spike that forms part of the bit. Altogether the Western horses cannot enjoy a wedding very much. ... The saddle is called sarj (pronounced sharz in Sinai) and bears a strong resemblance to the mediaeval tilting saddle, in which a chair-back is used to aid the knight with the whole weight of his steed at the moment of impact. The square iron stirrups, with sharp edges which serve as spurs, can be traced back to the Middle Ages, just as the cross-handled swords still used in the Northern Sudan. Altogether the wars of the Crusades have left a distinct mark on the Arab horseman’s equipment.
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Las Cantigas de Santa María. Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Оттуда же. Можно сравнить размер шпор у латинского панцирника и мавра. Конец XIII века...
