Hadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ (
Arabic: حديث بياض ورياض, "The Story of Bayad and 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 slave girl in the court of an unnamed
Hajib (
vizier or minister) of 'Iraq (
Mesopotamia); and a "Lady" (al-sayyida).[1]
Manuscript
The Hadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ manuscript, Vatican City,
Vatican Library, Codex
Vat. Arabo 368, is one of three surviving illustrated manuscripts from
medieval al-Andalus (in modern
Spain and
Portugal).[2] Many non-illustrated Andalusi books do survive, so illustrated manuscripts may have been rare.
Alois R. Nykl. Historia de los amores de Bayad wa Riyad: Una chantefable oriental en estilo persa (Vat. Ar. 368). New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1941.
La storia di Bayad e Riyad (Vat.ar. 368). Una nuova edizione e traduzione, ed. and trans. Arianna D'Ottone. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2013 (Studi e Testi 479).
ISBN978-88-210-0908-2.
Cynthia Robinson, Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean: Hadith Bayad Wa Riyad. New York: Routledge, 2007.
ISBN978-0415595926.
References
^D'Ottone, Arianna (2013). La storia di Bayad e Riyad (Vat.ar. 368). Una nuova edizione e traduzione. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
ISBN978-88-210-0908-2.
^Sabiha Khemir (1992). Dodds, Jerrilynn D. (ed.). Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 122.
ISBN0870996371.
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)