(1) Wafayat al-Aʿyan records the title as “al-ʿUmda fi Maʿrifat Sinaʿat al-Shiʿr wa-Naqdihi wa-ʿUyyubihi.” The book has been issued several times; its first printed edition appeared in Cairo in 1325 / 1907 under the title “al-ʿUmda fi Maḥāsin al-Shiʿr wa-Ādābihi wa-Naqdihi.” (2) Al-Wafi lists it as “Anmūdhaj al-Shuʿarāʾ, Shuʿarāʾ al-Qayrawān.” Ibn Rashiq arranged the work around the poets of his own age. Yaqut states that the author added an autobiography at the end and quotes part of it; see Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ 8 / 112. Haji Khalifah calls the book “al-Anmūdhaj fi al-Lugha,” a title not supported by the other sources. (3) A city in the Maghrib, also called al-Muḥammadiyya after Abu l-Qasim Muhammad b. al-Mahdi, its founder in 315 / 927 (Yaqut). (4) A town in Sicily; see Muʿjam al-Buldan 5 / 40. (5) Ibn Khallikan confirms the first opinion. The second view—advanced by Yaqut in his Muʿjam 8 / 111 and followed by al-Suyuti in Bughyat al-Wuʿāt 1 / 504—is that he died in Qayrawan. Al-Qifti, in Inbāh al-Ruāt 1 / 303, holds that he died in Mazara about 450 / 1058. (6) This short treatise was first published in Cairo (Rare Texts Series, 1926) under the title Qarasinet al-Dhahab fi Naqd Ashʿār al-Arab, and again in Tunis in 1972, edited by al-Ustadh al-Shadhili Bu Yahya. (7) The title is mis-read in Kashf al-Ẓunūn as “al-Shudhūr.” (8) For his other works see Wafayat al-Aʿyan 2 / 85 and Hadiyat al-ʿArifin 1 / 276. His verse was first gathered, together with that of Ibn Sharf, by al-Ustadh al-Maymani in al-Nutf min Shiʿr Ibn Rashiq wa-Ibn Sharf; a larger collection, expanded by Dr. ʿAbd al-Rahman Yaghi, was published by Dar al-Thaqafa, Beirut, 1962. Ihsan Abbas observes in his commentary on al-Dhakhira 4 / 2 / 597 that a sizeable portion of Ibn Rashiq’s poetry—especially many pieces cited by Ibn Bassam—still remains outside these two compilations.