خزانة كتب قصر قرطبة
خزانة كتب قصر قرطبة
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 1.
At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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In space
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Overview
In the time of al-Hakam al-Mustansir
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. 1
He 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. 1
Its fate
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. 1
Connections
- Located in
- Cordoba
People and things also explored
جامع قرطبة· وقعة الأرك· فتح قرطبة· حصار الأذفونش قرطبة ودخولها في طاعة الموحدين· استيلاء العدو على قرطبة· وقعة الربض· فتنة الربض بقرطبة· دخول البرابرة قرطبة عنوة
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, pp. 421–422
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islam.museum contributors. “خزانة كتب قصر قرطبة”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/khizanat-kutub-qurtuba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.