EAP466-RM019MPRINT REF: RIYADHA019
General Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM019
Title in original script: ديوان الحبيب أبو بكر بن عبد الله العيدروس
Title in transliteration: Dīwān al-ḥabīb ʾabū bakr bin ʿabdAllāh al-ʿaydarūs
Author-Original Script: عبدالله بن ابي بكر بن عبدالرحمن ابي علوي الصقاف العيدروس
Author-Latin Script: ʿAbdullāh bin ʾAbī Bakr bin ʾAbdu'r-Raḥmān ʾAbī ʿAlawī al-Saqqāf al-ʿAydarūs
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
First sentence in original script: نعم لو صح تحقيقي شهودي
First sentence in transliteration: Naʿam law ṣaḥḥa taḥqīqī shuhūdī
Copyist-Original script: سالم بن يسلّم بن عوض باصفار
Copyist-Latin Script: Sālim bin Yusallim bin ʿAwḍ Bā Ṣafār
Description of Content: Dīwan
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of copy CE: 1927
Year of copy AH: 1346
Physical Description of item: Carton cover with cloth spine. Spine is partially broken. Text in rd and black ink, partly faded. Title page has illuminated border in green, red and black. First page has illumited heading in red, black and green, reading "Ma sha Allah kana"
Physical characteristics height (cm): 26.8
Physical characteristics width (cm): 20
Physical characteristics (folios): 245
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
Collection description
The RIYADHAPRINT materials include early Arabic prints, mostly from the Riyadha Mosque Library collection in Lamu. These objects were digitized in October and November 2023. The series also includes the Riyadha manuscript collection which was digitized in 2011 as part of the Endangered Archive Programme (EAP466) of the British Library funded by the Arcadia Fund. These objects bear the shelfmark MPRINT-RIYADHA-EAP466. The selection of what to digitize in this group was made according to age (prioritizing early prints) and relevance (such as lithographs.) Several prints on this list belong to individual custodians in Lamu town, and these were named after their owners (i.e. Khadija Muhammad Salim and Fatma Ba Hsan).
The early print group features a range of texts printed in Arabic between 1854 and 1977 across various printing centres in the Muslim world. The various stamps, handwritten notes, and annotations, mainly from the cover page, reflect the journey these texts have taken over the years from production centers to users.
TIFF files
High-quality TIFF images are available for researchers upon request. Please send an e-mail to manuscript-cultures@uni-hamburg.de, include your name, institution and specify which MPRINT images you need and indicate their intended purpose. Your request will be reviewed as quickly as possible. MprinT is funded by the Research Council of Norway and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was partially conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at University of Hamburg. Most of the digitization occurred between October 2021 and May 2025.