is a one-page table of contents for the chapters, written in an ordinary naskh hand. The title page carries several seals together with the waqf inscription of Sultan Maḥmūd Khān, recorded by Aḥmad Shaykhzade for the Endowments of the Two Sanctuaries. The copy is unsigned and undated; it closes with the phrase, “The book was completed with the aid of the All-Bestowing King.” Its margins contain supplementary notes and corrections. I have designated this manuscript with the siglum (ṣ).

Third: the copy housed in the Yeni Cami Library (the New Mosque) in Istanbul—the one Brockelmann mentioned earlier—was later transferred, along with the rest of that collection, to the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul. It is now catalogued under number 761 and consists of 194 folios penned in a fine naskh script. A few pages contain marginal remarks or light corrections. The transcription was finished on 29 Ramaḍān 1066 AH by Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, Rumī by birth and Egyptian by residence. This copy likewise bears seals and a waqf notice. I have assigned it the siglum (j).

Fourth: the copy at Princeton University Library in the United States—the one Brockelmann cited (Garrett 1518)—runs to 405 pages and is written in a neat ruqʿa script. The margins and interlinear spaces hold annotations and references that locate passages from the Old and New Testaments, and the manuscript also contains a subject index to the book. The writing was completed on the night of Friday, 21 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1275 AH by its scribe, Muṣṭafā Rashdī ibn Aḥmad Filyūzī. I have marked this manuscript with the siglum (b).

Fifth: a copy in the Egyptian National Library (Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya) in Cairo, catalogue number 21369 S