Kitāb Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-ṣāliḥīn

Title:

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

Creator:

Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367

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

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Envelope flaps (features)
Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 15th century
Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800

Geographic region:

A.H. 804 (1402)

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.

Extent:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS Rar Ms 137: Kitāb Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-ṣāliḥīn are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Identifier:

CAJS Rar Ms 137

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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