Hadith Bayad wa Riyad
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Hadith Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ (Arabic,حديث بياض ورياض The Story of Bayad and Riyad) or Qissat Bayad wa Riyad is a 13th-century Arabic love story. The main characters of the tale are Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus, Riyad, a well educated girl in the court of an unnamed Hajib (vizier or minister) of 'Iraq (Mesopotamia) and a "Lady" (al-sayyida).
The Hadith Bayad wa Riyad manuscript is believed to be the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from the more than eight centuries of Muslim medieval life in Spain and Portugal. The sole manuscript is in the Vatican Library, where it is catalogued as Codex Vat. Arabo 368.
See also
Further reading
- Nykl, Alois R. Historia de los amores de Bayad wa Riyad: Una chantefable oriental en estilo persa (Vat. Ar.368).New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1941.
- D'Ottone A., Il manoscritto Vaticano arabo 368: Hadith Bayad wa Riyad. Il codice, il testo, le immagini: alcune note, «Rivista di Storia della Miniatura» 14 (2010), pp. 55-70; La storia di Bayad e Riyad (Vat.ar. 368). Una nuova edizione e traduzione, by D'Ottone, Arianna, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2013 (Studi e Testi 479), ISBN 978-88-210-0908-2
- The Story of Bayad and Riyad - Qissat Bayad wa Riyad.
- Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean: Hadith Bayad Wa Riyad, by Robinson, Cynthia, ISBN 978-0415595926.
External links
- Al-Andalus: the art of Islamic Spain, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Hadith Bayad wa Riyad (see index)
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