Ridawiya Library, MS 5229


MS 5229 is a 13th-century manuscript, 210 folia, kept in Astane Quds Museum, Mashhad. It was discovered in 1923 in Mashhad by Turkic scholar Ahmed Zeki Validi Togan. It contains a collection of medieval Arabic geographical treatises, most notably the 10th-century account of Ibn Fadlan of his embassy to the Volga Bulgars.

Contents

  • Ibn al-Faqih: aẖbar al-buldan "Exploration of the lands"
  • Abu Dulaf: ar-risalatu-l-ūla "First relation"
  • Abu Dulaf: ar-risalatu-ṯ-ṯnaniat "Second relation"
  • Ibn Fadlan: ma šahidat fi baladi-t-turk wa al-ẖazar wa ar-rus wa aṣ-ṣaqalibat wa al-bašġird wa ġirham "Account of the lands of the Turks, the Khazars, the Rus, the Saqaliba, the Bashkhirs"

Editions and reproductions

  • Togan, Ahmed Zeki Validi, Ibn Fadlan's Reisebericht
  • Kovalevskii, A. P., Kniga Akhmeda Ibn-Fadlana o ego Puteschestvii na Volgu 921-922 gg.
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