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

140. Tadhkirat al-Awliya Lives of the Saints, by Sinaneddin Yusuf, died 891. Contains the lives of 70 Islamic saints.
141. Silsile-name Book of Chains, i.e., Genealogical tables from the beginning of the world to the time of Suleiman II, with the addition of elegant pictures of the principal Prophets and Kings, by the painter Hussein in the year 1104 H.
142. Translation of these tables by Leopold de Talman, Imperial and Royal Interpreter of Oriental Languages in 1725, then Resident Internuncio and Orator at the Ottoman Porte.
143. Subhat al-Akhbar Rosary of News, not to be confused with Subhat al-Akhyar (see No. 118) even though it is of almost the same subject. These are the genealogies of the Prophet Mohammed, the dynasties of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Samanids, the family of Buyids, the family of Sabuktigin, Khwarazm, Malahid, the Seljuks, and the Ottomans, distinguished by most elegant pictures.
144. Subhat al-Abrar Rosary of the Just. A genealogical table composed in the manner of the works Subhat al-Akhyar, Subhat al-Akhbar, and Silsile-name, during the reign of Sultan Selim II. It contains the prophets, ancient Kings of Persia, the lineage of Mohammed, then the dynasties of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Samanids, the family of Buyids, the family of Sabuktigin, Khwarazm, Malahid (the Assassins), Genghisids, and Ottomans up to Selim II, without pictures.
145. Tadhkira-i Latifi Ephemerides of Turkish Poets by Latifi, only a fragment, which begins with Kemalpaşazade and ends with Korkud.

146. Maqamat al-Sheikh al-Hariri Assemblies of Sheikh Hariri. A most excellent work, to be praised for its elegance and the ornaments of its eloquence, and after the Quran, it is to be preferred over all other Arabic works written in prose; it is so famous that it does not require any praise from us. Regarding what the R. Arida thinks of this unique codex, see Fundgruben Vol. I.
147. The same work, written by Michael son of Anthony al-Saraf of Tripoli in 1153.
148. Commentary on the same work; the name of the author is suppressed, and among so many commentators, which one this may be is not clear to us, but perhaps...

) CC. Arida, Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Vienna, in Vol. I, page 452 of the "Oriental Mines" (Fodinarum Orientalium), discussed more on the value of this codex, which was taken from the autograph itself in the year 640 (i.e., one century after the year 516 when the author died) and was collated and emended in the presence of the most famous Damascene Sheikhs*.