EAP466-RM035MPRINT REF: RIYADHA035
General Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM035
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Modality of text: Manuscript
Physical Description of item: One quire covered in paper. Black and red ink.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 25
Physical characteristics width (cm): 18
Physical characteristics (folios): 28.
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM035aGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM035a
Title in original script: النويرة عتيق السادة العلوية
Title in transliteration: al-Nawīra ʿatīq al-sāda al-ʿalawiyya
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Historical Owner: عبد الحبيب بن عبد الله اليافعي
First sentence in original script: يا حاظر الحضرة ابشر بالرضى و القبول
First sentence in transliteration: "Yā ḥāḍir al-ḥaḍrah, ibshir bi-al-riḍā wa al-qubūl
Description of Content: Poem,Qasīda
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of copy CE: 1936
Year of copy AH: 1356
Physical Description of item: One quire covered in paper. Black and red ink.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 25
Physical characteristics width (cm): 18
Physical characteristics (folios): 8 (1-8.pages)
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM035bGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM035b
Title in original script: نفايس شيخ بن إسماعيل
Title in transliteration: Nafāyis shaikh bin ʾismāʿīl
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Historical Owner: عبد الحبيب بن عبد الله اليافعي
First sentence in original script: الله الله الله الله الله الله الله ذو المن و اللطيف
First sentence in transliteration: Allāh Allāh Allāh Allāh Allāh Allāh Allāh dhū al-mann wa al-laṭīf
Description of Content: Poem,Manzūm
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of copy CE: 1936
Year of copy AH: 1356
Physical Description of item: One quire covered in paper. Black and red ink.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 25
Physical characteristics width (cm): 18
Physical characteristics (folios): 3 (8-11. pages)
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM035cGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM035c
Title in original script: الراتب المبارك
Title in transliteration: al-Rātib al-mubārak
Author-Original Script: الحبيب القطب الصالح صاحب المراتب عمير بن علي بو علامة
Author-Latin Script: al-Ḥabīb al-Quṭb al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāhib al-Marātib ʾAmīr bin ʾAlī
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Historical Owner: عبد الحبيب بن عبد الله اليافعي
First sentence in original script: الله الله الكريم المثنا
First sentence in transliteration: Allāh Allāh al-karīm al-muthannā
Copyist-Original script: عبد الحبيب بن عبد الله بن ناصر عفيف اليافعي
Copyist-Latin Script: ʾAbd al-Ḥabīb bin ʾAbd Allah bin Nāsir Afīf al-Yāfiʾī
Description of Content: Dhikr,Duʿāʾ
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of copy CE: 1936
Year of copy AH: 1356
Physical Description of item: One quire covered in paper. Black and red ink.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 25
Physical characteristics width (cm): 18
Physical characteristics (folios): 5 (13-18.pages)
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM035dGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM035d
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Historical Owner: عبد الحبيب بن عبد الله اليافعي
First sentence in original script: من لا سلك في طريق اهله تهيم و ظاع
First sentence in transliteration: Man lā salaka fī ṭarīq ahlihi tahīm wa ḍāʿa
Description of Content: Poem
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of copy CE: 1936
Year of copy AH: 1356
Physical Description of item: One quire covered in paper. Black and red ink.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 25
Physical characteristics width (cm): 18
Physical characteristics (folios): 2 (19-21.pages)
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM035eGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM035e
Title in original script: توشيح
Title in transliteration: Tawshīḥ
Author-Original Script: الشيخ عبد الله مبارك بن علي البر
Author-Latin Script: Shaikh ʾAbd Allah Mubārak bin ʾAlī al-Birr
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Historical Owner: عبد الحبيب بن عبد الله اليافعي
First sentence in original script: البيت با لله الفرد الودود هو واسع الجود مثله من يجود
First sentence in transliteration: Al-bayt bi Allāh al-fard al-wadūd huwa wāsiʿ al-jūd mithluhu man yujūd.
Description of Content: Poem
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of copy CE: 1936
Year of copy AH: 1356
Physical Description of item: One quire covered in paper. Black and red ink.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 25
Physical characteristics width (cm): 18
Physical characteristics (folios): 6 (22-28. pages)
State of completion: incomplete
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.