Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black ink.The ms is incomplete and contain the following sections (ajzāʼ): section 43 (f. 1r), 58 (f. 32r), 70 (f. 60r), 67 (f. 69r), 68 (f. 119r), 76 (f. 231r), 77 (f. 261r), 80 (f. 319r). There are also parts from other sections, which lack title pages. Leaves may be out of order.Bound in light brown leather. Bound in India probably in late 19th or early 20th century.The ms is not dated but copied in the life time of the author, towards the end of it, and most probably in Baghdad. The book was read to the author and signed by him.Note in the hand of the author on f. 1r and on first folios of each juzʼ of the book: "qaraʼahu ʻalayya ilá ākhirihi Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Madāyinī; wa-katabahu al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīrāfī."With this is bound a fragment of the section on letter bāʼ (colophon title: Kitāb al-bāʼ) of a dictionary (ff. 356-365). The author of the dictionary is identified as Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Tamīmī al-Naḥwī in the colophon (f. 365v). The fragment is completed in the hand of the ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Ḥanīfah on 4 Rajab 368 AH [February 3, 979 AD]. The manuscript was collated with the original one written in the hand of the author.Iran Jewett manuscript no. 1.MS Arab 438. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Bound with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAsākir, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-buldānīyah, and other hadith collections.MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Bound with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAsākir, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-buldānīyah, and other hadith collections.MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.أبي بكر أحمد بن علي بن ثابت الخطيب البغدادي.
Bound with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAsākir, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-buldānīyah, and other hadith collections.MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Bound with ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAsākir, Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-buldānīyah, and other hadith collections.MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black.According to a note on f. 39r, copy completed on 13 Ramaḍān 686 AH [October 21, 1287 AD] in the mosque of Damascus from the copy of al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ... al-Birzālī.Bound in brown morocco, stamped in blind.Ownership statement on inside front cover signed Benjamin Duprat (Librarian of the French Institute of the Imperial Library).With this is bound: Juzʻ fīhi ʻAsharat majālis min amālī al-Shaykh al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Khallāl (ff. 41r-58v) -- Juzʼ fīhi Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 63r-77r) -- Juzʼ fīhi thamānūn ḥadīthan ʻan thamānīna shaykhan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 81r-96v) -- Juzʼ fīhi aḥādīth Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻAyyāsh ... al-Tūnī ʻan shuyūkhih (ff. 98r-122r) -- al-Juz al-awwal min Asmā al-mubhamah fī al-anbā al-muḥkamah / al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (ff. 126r-144v).MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
According to the colophon (f. 245r), copy completed on 20 Ramaḍān 734 AH [May 24, 1334 AD].الحمد لمن من على عباده وعباده بارسال رسله وهداية سبله ... قال الشيخ الامام الاجل البارع مولانا حافظ الملة والدين... :IncipitSeal on f. 2v signed Muḥammad Sayyid and dated 1230 AH [1815 AD].Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black and red.Thick oriental paper. 17.5 x 14.5 cm. (12.5 x 10 cm.).Only the upper cover of a blind stamped dark brown leather binding remains.MS Arab 282. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Paper. 15.7 x 11.4 cm. (13.3 x 9.3 cm.).Bound with: Khulāṣat siyar Sayyid al-bashar / li-Muḥibb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭabarī (ff. 1r-19r).MS Arab 362. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Title from inside cover in a later handscript.Written in one column, 25 lines per page, in black and red. Notes and additions in the margins.Laid paper. 19.2 x 13.6 cm. (15.3 x 11 cm.).According to the colophon (f. 186r), copy completed on 26 Ramaḍān 766 AH [June 16, 1365 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad.Bound in blind stamped brown leather.MS Arab 212. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black ink. Text includes tables. Comments in the margins.Copy completed in 774 AH [1372-3 AD].MS Arab 332. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.