= al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya 12/44; Miftah al-Sa‘ada 1/187, 213; Ma‘ahid al-Tansis 3/266-271; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/246-247; Rawdat al-Jannat 462-463; Hadiyyat al-‘Arifin 1/625. (1) First printed in Damascus in 1304 AH/1887 in four volumes, then in Cairo in 1943, and in Beirut in 1947, edited by Muhyi al-Din ‘Abd al-Hamid for Dar al-Fikr, which reissued it in 1973. Al-Tha‘alibi completed the work under the title Tamimat al-Yatima (also called al-Yatima al-Thaniya or Dhayl Yatimat al-Dahr), published by Ahmad Iqbal in Tehran in 1934. A further sequel by al-Bakharzi entitled Dumyat al-Qasr wa-Usrat Ahl al-‘Asr was published by Muhammad Raghib al-Tabbah in Aleppo in 1930 and reprinted by Dar al-Fikr, Damascus, in 1971, edited by Muhammad al-Tunji. (2) Printed in several editions, including Cairo 1938 under the supervision of Mustafa al-Saqqa, Ibrahim al-Ibiari, and ‘Abd al-Hafiz al-Shalabi. See Ma‘jam al-Matbu‘at, p. 658, and Brockelmann, Geschichte, 5/189. (3) Titled Sihr al-Balagha wa-Sirr al-Bara‘a; printed in Damascus in 1350 AH/1931. A selected version appeared as the third treatise in Four Selected Treatises from the Works of the Scholar Abu Mansur al-Tha‘alibi, Istanbul, Matba‘at al-Jawāʾib, 1301 AH/1884; the first treatise draws from Kitab al-Tamthil wa-l-Muhadara, the second from Kitab al-Mubhij, and the fourth from Kitab al-Nihaya fi-l-Kinaya. For al-Tha‘alibi’s numerous writings and the locations of their manuscripts, consult Brockelmann, Geschichte, 5/186-198; Ma‘jam al-Matbu‘at, 656-660; and Hadiyyat al-‘Arifin, 1/625. (4) Samples of his poetry are found in Dumyat al-Qasr 2/967-970 and al-Dhakhira 4/2/581-583. (*) Further references: al-Ansab (entry al-Munjawiyi); al-Lubab 3/261; Duwal al-Islam 1/255; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz. =