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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear Guy,<br>
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It is indeed unfortunate that Emilio Garcia Gomez (<i>El Libro de las Banderas de los Campeones, de Ibn Sa'id al-Magribi</i>, Madrid, 1942) did not identify the Arabic manuscript of
<i>Rayat al-mubarrizin wa-ghayat al-mumayyizin</i> (Banners of the Champions and Standards of the Chosen) nor did the editors of the Cairo (1973) and Damascus (1987) editions.<br>
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The <i>Rayat</i> was handed to Gomez by the Egyptian philologist Ahmad Zaki Pasha (1867-1934), that is, a photocopy of the manuscript from Istanbul. According to Manfred Kropp, it was _possibly_ Ms. "Wali al-Din" 2636.2. See Kropp, Review of the second edition
of Gomez, Barcelona, 1978, in <i>Arabica</i>, 28 (1981), pp. 111-118, at 112-113 (in German). This ms. was microfilmed by the Arab League (<i>ibid</i>., p. 112).
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Another manuscript is also mentioned by Kropp, Ms. Azhar Adab 642 (7224) Abaza, but it is unclear what is its relation to the Istanbulian one.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Liran<br>
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1. Banners of the Champions Manuscript location or facsimile?<br>
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Subject: [Andalusi Studies] Banners of the Champions Manuscript<br>
location or facsimile?<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">I realize that this time of year most of you are probably cruising the Mediterranean on mahogany sailboats, but I am hopeful that— while certainly a long shot— perhaps someone on the list might be able to help with an urgent
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<div>I work with Jenny Holzer, a contemporary “conceptual" artist I am hoping may be known-- even liked— by some of you. The very short version of the story is her studio has a couple of large public permanent installation projects currently in motion that
will in part feature Andalusian poetry in English translation, Arabic (or Hebrew) or both. Among the most significant primary sources (via Emilio García Gómez, Bellamy/Steiner, Middleton/Garza-Falcón, Arberry et al) is Ibn Sa’id al-Maghribī’s Banners of the
Champions (which I believe is in Arabic, a language, regrettably, in which I am wholly illiterate: <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:'Geeza Pro'; letter-spacing:0px">رايـات</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:Georgia; letter-spacing:0px">
</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:'Geeza Pro'; letter-spacing:0px">الـمـبـرزيـن</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:Georgia; letter-spacing:0px">
</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:'Geeza Pro'; letter-spacing:0px">و</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:Georgia; letter-spacing:0px">
</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:'Geeza Pro'; letter-spacing:0px">غـايـات</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:Georgia; letter-spacing:0px">
</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:'Geeza Pro'; letter-spacing:0px">الـمـمـيـزيـن</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37); font-family:Georgia; letter-spacing:0px"> ).</span>
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<div><font face="Georgia" color="#252525">I</font><font color="#252525">nsofar as I have ascertained, all those above, starting with García Gómez, maintain that the Sa’id anthology exists in a single manuscript-- privately owned in Cairo in the 1920s. But none
provides any clue about where the manuscript, or even a facsimile of it, might be found now. Nor for that matter whether any other primary manuscript source has been discovered since García Gómez’s fateful Egypt visit of 90-odd years ago. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#252525">Jenny is currently writing a proposal and one potential idea on the table is to make use of original manuscript pages rendered on an epic scale in stone— though how far this particular idea will actually progress is uncertain. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#252525">In any event, leads of any kind would be very much appreciated. Many thanks. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#252525">Guy Lesser</font></div>
<div><font color="#252525">Jenny Holzer Studio</font></div>
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