The Manuscript

Hidden for over six hundred years, in Spain, a recently discovered journal tells the story of a great lady, the true driving force behind the first sultans of the Nasrid Dynasty.

A story of the founders of a dynasty in the al-Andalus Empire of medieval Spain.

The Alhambra, Granada, Spain: A casket from the mid-fourteenth century is discovered during some renovation work at the beautiful palace. This is the period of the later years of what was once the great al-Andalus empire, now modern-day Andalusia in southern Spain. Historians are excited to find, inside the casket, the journal of al-Jatib, vizier of the young sultan Yusuf I, who is also a renowned poet and medic of his time. The journal is of his visits to the sultan’s ailing grandmother, Fátima, as she lies agonising in the chambers of The Alhambra Palace. The year is 1348.