Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts of the Imperial Library of Vienna

only of this work, from the birth of the Prophet to the beginning of the Abbasid Empire.

104. Tarikh al-Khulafa History of the Caliphs, by Dschelaleddin Abdorrahman f. Ebibekr Esseyuti Jalal al-Din Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr al-Suyuti, died 911. A work to be preferred over all others treating the history of the Caliphs, according to Hadschi Chalfa Haji Khalifa.

105. Tarikh al-Hukama History of the Philosophers, by Mohammed B. Abdolkerim Schehristani Muhammad b. Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani, died 548. Written in a most elegant script, sufficiently recommended to all Oriental philologists by the name of the author.

106. Tarikh Salatin-i Rum History of the Greek Emperors, in folio. It begins with Constantine the Great and continues after the fall of the Byzantine Empire up to Sultan Murad IV in the year 1624 of the Christian era. Written by Ferrach Daimus, a French interpreter, in 1715 at Sidon.

107. Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah wa ma fiha min al-Aja'ib wa al-Ghara'ib Biography of the Commander of the Faithful Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and of the marvelous and strange events of his time, composed biographically and historically, i.e., descriptively and chronologically, by Ahmed f. Abdollah f. Chalegan. It is doubtful whether this is the same as the "Arabic Plutarch" who became famous under the name of the son of Chalegan, because the latter is called Ahmed son of Mohammed, whereas this one is called Ahmed son of Abdollah. The content of the volume adds weight to this doubt, as it appears to us to be written in a manner more trifling and fabulous than biographical and historical. Only the second volume is present, in folio, of 559 pages.

108. Marj al-Zuhur fi Waqa'i al-Duhur Flowering Meadow of the Events of the Ages; by Seid Mohammed Ben Ajas Alhanefi Sayyid Muhammad b. Iyas al-Hanafi, in two volumes. The first, divided into 46 chapters, deals with the geographical division of the earth, seas, rivers, mountains, etc., then the History of the Prophets from Adam to Mohammed. The second volume treats various theological subjects, interspersed with anecdotes and histories. This codex was written in a script that is anything but beautiful, in the year 1112 (1700), in 4to.

109. This codex, clearly written but in some places damaged by dampness, contains several historical treatises by the most famous Makrisi al-Maqrizi, under the following titles:

I. Kitab al-Bayan wa al-I'rab 'amma bi-Ard Misr min al-A'rab Explanatory and Exegetical Book on the Arabs dwelling in the land of Egypt: Recounting the names of the various Arab tribes that inhabit Egypt and their origin.

II. Kitab al-Niza' wa al-Takhassum fima bayna Bani Umayya wa Bani Hashim History of the conflict and enmity between the family of the Umayyads and the family of the Prophet.

III. Kitab Jani al-Azhar min al-Rawd al-Mi'tar Exquisite Flowers from the Fragrant Gardens; which is a compendium of the geographical work Aja'ib al-Aqtar Wonders of the Regions.