Ridawiya Library, MS 5229

MS 5229 is a 13th-century (7th century Hijra) manuscript, 210 folia (420 pages), kept in Astane Quds Museum (موزهٔ آستان قدس رضوی), 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" (p. 1)
• Abu Dulaf: ar-risalatu-l-Å«la "First relation" (p. 347)
• Abu Dulaf: ar-risalatu-ṯ-ṯnaniat "Second relation" (p. 362)
• Ibn Fadlan: ma Å¡ahidat fi baladi-t-turk wa al-ẖazar wa ar-rus wa aá¹£-á¹£aqalibat wa al-baÅ¡Ä¡ird wa Ä¡irham "Account of the lands of the Turks, the Khazars, the Rus, the Saqaliba, the Bashkhirs" (p. 390)

Editions and reproductions

• Togan, Ahmed Zeki Validi, Ibn Fadlan's Reisebericht (Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag F. A. Brockhaus, 1939) [edition, from Razawi Library MS 5229, and German translation, of Ibn Fadlān's text]
• Kovalevskii, A. P., Kniga Akhmeda Ibn-Fadlana o ego Puteschestvii na Volgu 921-922 gg (Kharkov, 1956). [Includes photographic reproduction of Ibn Fadlān's text in Razawi Library MS 5229.]