{
 "id": "building/khizanat-kutub-qurtuba",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "khizanat-kutub-qurtuba",
 "label": {
  "ar": "خزانة كتب قصر قرطبة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "خزانة العلوم والكتب بدار بني مروان بقرطبة؛ بلغت في أيام الحكم المستنصر ما لم تجمعه مكتبة ملك قبله — أربع وأربعون فهرسة في كل فهرسة عشرون ورقة ليس فيها إلا أسماء الدواوين — وكان يبعث رجالاً من التجار بأموال إلى الأقطار لشرائها حتى جلب ما لم يعهده الأندلسيون، وجمع بداره الحذاق في صناعة النسخ والمهرة في الضبط والإجادة في التجليد؛ ولم تزل الكتب بالقصر إلى أن بيع أكثرها في حصار البربر بأمر الحاجب واضح مولى المنصور ونهب ما بقي عند اقتحامهم قرطبة {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}.",
  "en": "The royal library of Córdoba's palace: under al-Hakam II its catalogues alone filled forty-four volumes of twenty folios each — titles only; agents bought manuscripts in every land, and the palace kept guilds of copyists, collators and binders. It stood until the Berber siege, when the hajib Wadih had most of it sold and the rest looted {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "andalus-europe"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "library",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "نفح الطيب من غصن الأندلس الرطيب للمقري (ط إحسان عباس) ص 421–422",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-nafh-tib-batch-63"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nafh-tib-maqqari"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "خزانة العلوم والكتب بدار بني مروان في [[place/cordoba|قرطبة]]. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "في عهد الحكم المستنصر",
     "markdown": "بلغت في أيامه ما لم تجمعه مكتبة ملك قبله. كان فهرسها أربعاً وأربعين فهرسة، في كل فهرسة عشرون ورقة، ليس فيها إلا أسماء الدواوين. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}\n\nكان يبعث رجالاً من التجار بأموال إلى الأقطار لشراء الكتب، حتى جلب ما لم يعهده الأندلسيون. وجمع بداره المهرة في النسخ والضبط والتجليد. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مصيرها",
     "markdown": "بيع أكثر الكتب في حصار البربر بأمر الحاجب واضح مولى المنصور، ونُهب ما بقي عند اقتحامهم قرطبة. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/khizanat-kutub-qurtuba",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The library of sciences and books in the House of the Umayyads in [[place/cordoba|Cordoba]]. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the time of al-Hakam al-Mustansir",
     "markdown": "In his days it reached a size no king's library before him had gathered. Its catalogue was forty-four volumes, each with twenty leaves, listing nothing but the titles of the books. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}\n\nHe sent men from among the merchants with money to the provinces to buy books, until he brought in more than the Andalusians had ever known. In his house he gathered the skilled copyists, proof-readers and binders. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its fate",
     "markdown": "Most of the books were sold during the Berber siege, by order of Wadih, a client of al-Mansur, and what remained was plundered when they stormed Cordoba. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari pp. 421–422}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/khizanat-kutub-qurtuba",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/cordoba",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/nafh-tib-maqqari"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/great-mosque-cordoba",
  "event/battle-of-alarcos-591",
  "event/conquest-of-cordoba-92",
  "event/cordoba-siege-545",
  "event/fall-of-cordoba-636",
  "event/rabad-revolt-202",
  "event/rabbad-revolt-202",
  "event/sack-of-cordoba-403"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}