copied fols. 62–201. The remainder of the manuscript is in the hand of Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Habbāl, who completed his copying on 29 Shawwāl 840 AH in Tripoli, in Greater Syria. Someone wrote in the margin of fol. 176v: “From here to the end of the book is in al-Bashtakī’s hand.” Al-Bashtakī is Muhammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad, known as al-Badr al-Bashtakī (748–830 AH). Perhaps the annotator meant the exemplar from which this manuscript was copied, since this copy is written in the same, unchanging hand from its beginning through fol. 201.
At the top of the opening page is an ownership inscription in the hand of Shaykh Abd al-Azīz ibn Sulaymān ibn Abd al-Wahhāb (d. circa 1264 AH). He acquired it “by lawful purchase,” as he stated two leaves before the beginning of the text. Halfway down the page, in the margin, is the stamp of the Mahmūdiyyah Madrasa Library in Medina. Fol. 2r bears the stamp “Abd al-Azīz ibn Saud.” The manuscript is now held in the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul under shelfmark م 445.
- The manuscript of Ibn Khāss Turk’s library (ص)
This library manuscript originally comprised four volumes endowed to the Umariyyah Madrasa in Damascus. They were subsequently scattered far and wide, and only the fourth and final volume now remains in Damascus, under shelfmark (1899/ 48) in the Zāhiriyyah Library. The first and second volumes eventually reached the Süleymaniye Library, in the “Musallā Madrasa” collection—or so we were told. However, the stamp on both volumes is that of the Rāgıb Pasha Library in Istanbul, where their shelfmarks are (1938/ 1/40) and (1938/ 2/41). The third volume remains missing.
The copyist did not give his name or the date of copying at the end of either volume; perhaps he recorded them at