7 – Volume Nine opens with the biography of ʿAbd Allah ibn Rūḥ al-Madāʾinī and ends with the biography of Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr al-Albīrī. It comprises 282 folios; folio 50 is missing, and we have supplied it from the second Ahmet III manuscript. At the close of the volume we read: “Copying was completed two nights having elapsed of the month of Dhu al-Ḥijja, 740 AH.”

8 – Volume Ten opens with the biography of Ḥammād ibn Shākir and ends with the biography of Ibn Akhī Mīmī, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Baghdādī al-Daqqāq. It comprises 290 folios. At its close we read: “Copying was completed on the night of Sunday, ten nights having elapsed of Rajab, 741 AH.” Folio 281 is missing from this volume.

9 – Volume Eleven opens with the biography of the lord of Mosul, Ḥusām al-Dawla Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, and ends with the biography of Abū Yūsuf al-Qazwīnī the Muʿtazilī. It comprises 288 folios.

10 – Volume Twelve opens with the biography of Abū Saʿīd al-Dabbās and ends with the biography of Ibn Binaymān al-Hamadhānī, the muezzin and tutor. It comprises 278 folios, and at its close we read: “Copying was completed on the night of Friday, three nights remaining of Jumādā al-Ūlā, 742 AH.” This volume lacks folio 45.

11 – Volume Thirteen opens with the biography of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī and ends with the biography of ʿAlī ibn al-Muʿizz, entitled al-Manṣūr. It comprises 318 folios, and at its close we read: “Copying was completed two nights having elapsed of Ṣafar, 743 AH.”