Resumen de Il manoscritto Vaticano arabo 368, Hadit Bayad wa Riyad. Il codice, il testo, le immagini
The manuscript Vat. ar. 368, containing the text known as Ḥadīt Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ, is, under many respect, an unicum. The text was first edited and translated in Spanish in 1941 by A.R. Nykl and then some of the 14 miniatures illustrating the text were often published as beautiful plates without paying any attention to the text.
The codex remained pratically unstudied for decades but various articles were recently devoted to it and a new English translation is now available. However the most recent studies dedicated to the manuscript miss a number of details, related both to its history and to the text, and give a questionable interpretation of its first illustration.
This paper aims, therefore, at reconsidering the whole manuscript. Through a codicological analysis of the codex and a careful examination of both text and images, new details are pointed out for dating the manuscript and understanding the context of its production. Last but not least this contribution intends to shed light on the disregarded history of the codex.
