EAP466-RM054MPRINT REF: RIYADHA054
General Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM054
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Modality of text: Manuscript
Physical characteristics height (cm): 32.2
Physical characteristics width (cm): 23.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 202
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM054aGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM054a
Title in original script: دعاء السيفي
Title in transliteration: Duʿāʾ al-sayfī
Author-Original Script: عبد الله الحداد
Author-Latin Script: ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥaddād
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Copyist-Original script: محمد الله الوحاب
Copyist-Latin Script: Muḥammadallāh al-wahhāb
Description of Content: Duʿāʾ
Modality of text: Manuscript
Year of Original Metarial CE: 1759
Year of Original Material AH: 1173
Physical Description of item: Manuscript with no cover or binding. Black and red ink. Collected in quires, partly held toegther by stiching.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 32.2
Physical characteristics width (cm): 23.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 25 (2-27 pages)
State of completion: complete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM054bGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM054b
Author-Original Script: عبد الله الحداد
Author-Latin Script: ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥaddād
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
First sentence in original script: اللهم اني اسأل لما ودعت هذا الدعاء
First sentence in transliteration: Allāhumma innī asʾalu limā wadaʿtu hādhā al-duʿāʾ.
Copyist-Original script: محمد الله الوحاب
Copyist-Latin Script: Muḥammadallāh al-wahhāb
Description of Content: Duʿāʾ
Modality of text: Manuscript
Physical Description of item: Manuscript with no cover or binding. Black and red ink. Collected in quires, partly held toegther by stiching.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 16
Physical characteristics width (cm): 11
Physical characteristics (folios): 4 (27-31. pages)
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM054cGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM054c
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Copyist-Original script: محمد الله الوحاب
Copyist-Latin Script: Muḥammadallāh al-wahhāb
Description of Content: Duʿāʾ
Modality of text: Manuscript
Physical Description of item: Manuscript with no cover or binding. Black and red ink. Collected in quires, partly held toegther by stiching.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 32.2
Physical characteristics width (cm): 23.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 1 (32. page)
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM054dGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM054d
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Copyist-Original script: محمد الله الوحاب
Copyist-Latin Script: Muḥammadallāh al-wahhāb
Modality of text: Manuscript
Physical Description of item: Manuscript with no cover or binding. Black and red ink. Collected in quires, partly held toegther by stiching.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 32.2
Physical characteristics width (cm): 23.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 1 (33. page)
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Location of original material: Lamu, Kenya
EAP466-RM054eGeneral Ref/Shelfmark: EAP466-RM054e
Title in original script: ابتدء دلائل الخيرات
Title in transliteration: ʾIbtidaʾ dalāʾil al-khayrāt
Collection of original material: Riyadha
Owner/Custodian: Riyadha Madrasa
Copyist-Original script: محمد الله الوحاب
Copyist-Latin Script: Muḥammadallāh al-wahhāb
Description of Content: Duʿāʾ,Dhikr,Ṣalawāt
Modality of text: Manuscript
Physical Description of item: Manuscript with no cover or binding. Black and red ink. Collected in quires, partly held toegther by stiching.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 32.2
Physical characteristics width (cm): 23.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 152 (50-202. pages)
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.