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Title

Kitāb Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-ṣāliḥīn
كتاب روض الرياحين في حكايات الصالحين ،

Authors

• Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367
  يافعي، عبد الله بن أسعد،

Other related names

• Ḥafiz al-Shirāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Rajab ibn ʻUmar, scribe
  حافظ الشرازي، محمود بن رجب بن عمر.
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 137
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276876320
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4423550 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms137.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

A.H. 804 (1402)

Summary

An introduction in two chapters followed by five hundred stories of notable and important people and a conclusion in two chapters followed by another conclusion. The text is interspersed with poems and verses by the author and others.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon.
   
• Ms. note in pencil regarding subject of volume and ms. shelf mark on recto of front flyleaf; ms. note ("Histoire et chefs d'oeuvres des grandes personnages arabes") on verso of front flyleaf; occasional ms. annotations throughout text.
   
• Without title leaf. Copy has occasional ink smudges throughout; f. 1 mended at inner margin; lower portion of f. 1 cut off and replaced with a blank leaf; f. 129 mended at tail, inner and outer margins; top portion of f. 129 torn of and replaced with a blank leaf with some loss of text; lower portion of f. 137 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf with some loss of text on recto (some of which has been subsequently supplied); various leaves mended at margins; a few leaves dampstained at head margin (f. 82-88); a few leaves detached and laid in (f. 94-95).
   
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

137 leaves : 257 x 160 (195 x 105) mm bound to 261 x 187 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 137; 1-137; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full red leather with fore-edge flap and envelope flap (Type II), rebacked; envelope flap gilt-tooled; evidence of gilt-tooling on upper board; marbled endpapers.

Layout

Written in 33 lines per page in black and red ink, with poetry in two columns (35-45 mm. in width) and marginalia.

Script

Written in a very legible naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate with shelfmark, front pastedown) to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   

Subjects topical

• Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century

Licenses

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