Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red, framed within double red lines.Cream laid paper with watermarks. 24.8 x 18.4 cm. (18.5 x 11.2 cm.).Bound in original blind stamped red leather, with flap.According to the colophon (f. 185v), copy completed in Shaʻbān 1209 AH March 1795 AD in the hand of Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jazāʼirī.MS Arab SM186. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
17.1 x 10.6 cm (12.5 x 6.2 cm).Cream, thick glazed laid paper with some folios blue-green. Boards have flower motifs. Green spine has 19th century ornaments. Page edges cut off during later binding which is damaged, but volume intact. One folio missing between ff. 60-61.Written in taʻlīq script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black ink. Section headings, years and Arabic phrases in red or red overlined. Catchwords.MS Turk 50. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish; quotations in Arabic and Persian.
Jurjī Zaydān.Ilyās Ṣāliḥ wrote the introduction.'Zaydan\'s answer to the criticism of his Tārīkh Miṣr al-ḥadīth made by Ḥalawānī in his "Nabsh al-hadhayān min tārīkh Jirjī Zaydān".'