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A copy of book I, added at the end. *18 pp. ;Lb. 658;H. 1051* Or.3018

The commentary on book I; some lacunae. *pp. 123;Lb. 584;H.1189* Or.2944 Book II-IV. A few notes in the margin. *f. 90r-119r; an other part dated H. 1020* Or. 6642(5) Book II-IV, with numerous notes in the margin. *ff. 22; H. 123 (sic, probably 1230)* Or. 6366 Book II-IV, here entitled: FARA’ID al-QALA’ID FI TAflQIQ al-'AQA’ID. *ff. 13;H. 1054* Or. 6355(1) Commentary on book II-IV: MIRQAT al-ANZAR al-MUN- TAZA* MIN GAYAT al-AFKAR, by Fakhr ad-DTn *Abd Allah b. Muhammad an-Nagrï (d. 877/1472), S. II, 247. *f. 17- 139r;H. 1Q54* Or. 6355(2) Notes, partly in Dutch, from book VII (MS. Br. Mus. Or.4021,Rieu 395) by C. v. Arendonk. Or. 8300e The commentary on book VII entitled YAWAQÏT as-SIYAR has 8 chapters: l.k. 'AÓA’IB al-MALAKÜT. 2.k.SALWAT al-AWLIYA’ FÏ MA* RIFAT SiRAT al-ANBIYA’. 3.k. DIKR al-AMÓAD MIN ABA’INA WAT-AÓDAD. 4.k. ad- DURRA al-MUDIYYA FÏ ÖARH as-SÏRA an-NABAWIYYA. 5. 9IYA’ al-QAMAR FT SARH SÏRAT AS^ABIHI T- 'AÖARA T-GURAR. 6. RIYAD al-FIKAR FÏ ÖARH SiRAT ‘ITRATI- HIT-MUNTAKHABlN az-ZUHAR. 7. TUHFAT al-AKYAS FÏ §ARH TA’YÏN 5l UMAYYA WA’1-‘ABBAS. 8. TAZYÏN al-MAÓALIS BI-DIKR at-TU^AF an-NAFA’IS WA-MAK- NUN al- ‘ARÏ’IS. Our MS. comprises two fragments of ch. 6, and ch. 7 and 8 (the last one an abstract from Ibn al-GawzI's TUHFAT al-WU* *AZ). According to the colophon there should follow another work entitled GALA’ QULUB al- 'ARIFÏN by Abu'l-Qasim b. Muhammad aé-Safïf( ?), but this is not to be found in our MS. A copy of this work is in the Cairo library; in the catalogue (2d ed. Vol. I Appen dix p. 73) it is ascribed to Ibn al-Murtada himself. 2 vols. *a.f. l-59r, b.ff. 6;Lb. 271, CCA 898,899;H. 1054* Or. 2636 a, b