MS 5229 is a 7th century Hijra (13th century) manuscript, 210 folia (420 pages), kept in Ridawiya Library , Mashhad. It was discovered in 1923 in Mashhad by Turkish scholar Ahmed Zeki Validi Togan . It contains a collection of medieval arab geographical treatises, most notably the 10th century account of Ibn Fadlan of his embassy to the Volga Bulgars.

Contents

• Ibn af-Faqih : aẖbar al-buldan "Exploration of the lands" (p. 1)
• Abu Dulaf : ar-risalatu-l-ūla "First relation" (p. 347)
• Abu Dulaf : ar-risalatu-ṯ-ṯnaniat "Second relation" (p. 362)
• Ibn Fadlan: ma šahidat fi baladi-t-turk wa al-ẖazar wa ar-rus wa aṣ-ṣaqalibat wa al-bašġird wa ġirham "Account of the lands of the Turks, the Khazars, the Rus, the Saqaliba, the Bashkhirs" (p. 390)

Literature

• Collection of Geographical Works by Ibn al-Faqih, Ibn Fadlan, Abu Dulaf Al-Khazraji, ed. Fuat Sezgin, Frankfurt am Main, 1987.

External links

• some scans of a microfilm copy of the manuscript.