Kitāb Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-ṣāliḥīn, 1402; كتاب روض الرياحين في حكايات الصالحين ،1402

Contributor:

Ḥafiz al-Shirāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Rajab ibn ʻUmar (scribe); Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1402

Description:

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.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

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.; Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms137.html

Subject:

Muslims -- Biography; Muslims -- Biography -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 15th century; Biographies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from colophon.; Foliation: Paper, i + 137; 1-137; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords, lower left verso.; 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.; Decoration: Rubrications in red and in larger black.; 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.; Origin: Copy completed on 10th day of Ṣafr in the year A.H. 804 (1402 CE) by Maḥmūd ibn Rajab ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Shirāzī (f. 137v).; 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.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 137