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  2. Algiers, Bibliothèque universitaire d’Algerie, Fonds Alfred Bel, n. 35, fols. 132v-137v. Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Fajījī (d. c. 520/1514). Rawḍat al-sulwān (Garden of Consolation).
  3. Algiers, Bibliothèque Nationale d’Algérie 1509. Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Fajījī (d. c. 520/1514). Rawḍat al-sulwān (Garden of Consolation).
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  7. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ms. Ahlwardt 6197 = Sprenger 1926. ‘A Falconry Book in 17 Chapters’. Copied in 988/1580. 52 folios.
  8. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ms. Ahlwardt 6198 = Wetzstein 1164. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in ca.1000/1591. 55 folios.
  9. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ahlwardt 6199/1 = Petermann 509. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf, copied in 1242/1826, 60 folios
  10. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ahlwardt 6199/2 = Petermann 20. Al-Ḥajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf, copied in 838/1434, 67 pages
  11. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ahlwardt 6199/3 = Mf. 550. Excerpts from al-Ḥajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf and from Fī tadbīr al-buzāt wa’l-kilāb, copied in 1810s or 1830s, fol. 1b-4a.
  12. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ahlwardt 6200/1 = Wetzstein 1705/3, fol. 31b-32a. A hunting poem describing falconry. [to be explored]
  13. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Ahlwardt 6200/2 = Wetzstein 1705/8, fol. 89-94. A hunting poem describing falconry in lines 74 to 103. [to be explored]
  14. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya. Ms. 12 ṣināʿah. Ibn Manglī, Uns al-malāʾ bi-waḥsh al-falā. [Probably incorrect information in earlier literature, but double-check]
  15. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya. Ms. 2 furūsiyya Taymūr. Al-Hajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in 1323 H/1915 CE.
  16. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya. Ms. 762. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bāzyār, (Kitāb) al-bayzara. A photostat from a manuscript from the 4th/10th century, apparently lost. [Double-check that this is not actually a manuscript]
  17. Cairo, Maʿhad al-Makhṭūṭāt. Ms. 20 kīmyāʾ wa-ṭabīʿiyyāt. Another photostatic copy of the ‘other’ tenth-century manuscript which has been lost. [Double-check that this is not actually a manuscript]
  18. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya. Ms. L 6248. Photostatic copy of the Chester Beatty manuscript. [Personal communication Möller] [Double-check that this is not actually a manuscript]
  19. Cairo, Maktabat Al-Azhar, ms. 42799 ʿAydarūs. Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Fākihī al-Makkī, Mānahij al-surūr wa’l-rashād fī al-ramy wa’l-sibāq wa’l-ṣayd wa’l-jihād.
  20. Cairo, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO), ms. Ar. 106. Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Fākihī al-Makkī, Mānahij al-surūr wa’l-rashād fī al-ramy wa’l-sibāq wa’l-ṣayd wa’l-jihād.
  21. Calcutta, Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Ms. Arabic 865 M9. Abū al-Rūḥ ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī Ḥasān al-Asadī al-Baghdādī, Al-Jamhara fī ʿulūm al-bayzara. Copied in 797/1394.
  22. Cambridge, Cambridge University Library. Ms. Or. 464. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in 1003/1594-5 from a manuscript copied in 880/1475-6. 128 pp.
  23. Damascus, private library. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bāzyār, (Kitāb) al-bayzara. Used by Kurd ʿAlī in his edition, no details given.
  24. Dublin, Chester Beatty Library. Ms. 3831. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bāzyār, (Kitāb) al-bayzara. Autograph. 308 pp.
  25. El Hamel (Algeria), Zaouia, personal collection of shaykh Kacimi Si Mekki. Copied in 1315/1897. Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Fajījī (d. c. 520/1514). Rawḍat al-sulwān (Garden of Consolation).
  26. Fez, Al-Qarawiyyin 1332. Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Fajījī (d. c. 520/1514). Rawḍat al-sulwān (Garden of Consolation).
  27. Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Pertsch 2091. 1) Chapters on horses; 2) Kushājim, Kitāb al-nuzah. Copied in the 9th/15th century. 146 pp.
  28. Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Ms. Pertsch 2092. 1) Kitāb al-ṣayd; 2) al-Ḥajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in 966/1559. 21 x 30 cm. 184 pp.
  29. Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Ms Pertsch 2093. 86 fol. [Identification as incomplete Iskandar version rather than 2092/2 as suggested by Pertsch according to Möller, personal communication.] According to Pertsch ‘very old’.
  30. Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Ms Pertsch 2094. Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maʿrūf al-Rāṣīd, Al-Maṣābīḥ al-muzhira fī ʿilm al-bazdara. 44 fols. Copied 6 Shaʿbān 1068/9 May 1658.
  31. Istanbul, Istanbul, Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi. Ms. (Veliüddin) 2592. Kushājim, Dīwān.   
  32. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Ms. Ayasofya 3636. 1) Anonymous, Al-Zand al-wārī fī aḥwāl al-jawāriḥ wa’l-ḍawārī; 2) Anonymous, Kitab ṣifāt al-jawāriḥ; 3) A falcon book in 17 chapters. Copied in 1580 CE. 242 pp.
  33. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi. Ms. Ayasofya 3697. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in 872/1467.
  34. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi. Ms. Ayasofya 3813. Abū al-Rūḥ ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī Ḥasān al-Asadī al-Baghdādī, Al-Jamhara fī ʿulūm al-bayzara. Copied in 672/1273. 26 x 18 cm. 428 pp. Complete copy.
  35. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi. Ms. Fatih 3508. Abū al-Naṣr al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī al-Zaynabī al-ʿAbbāsī, Al-Qawānīn al-sulṭaniyya fī ’l-ṣayd. Around 555/1160. 488 pp. Only known copy (unicum).
  36. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi. Ms. Fatih 3566. Kitāb al-ṣayd fī ʿilm al-jawāriḥ (Book on the Hunt about the Science of Hunting Birds), compilation consisting of six third/ninth-century sources: 1) Kitāb al-Wāthiqī (Book for al-Wāthiq; Abbasid caliph reigning 227/842-232/847); 2) Kitāb al-Furs (Book of the Persians); 3) Kitāb al-Hind (Book of the Indians); 4) Kitāb al-Turk (Book of the Turks); 5) Kitāb al-buṣarāʾ (Book of the Experts); 6) Kitāb al-Rūm (Book of the Romans [or Greeks or Byzantines]); 7) fragment about hunting dogs; 8) fragment about cheetahs. Copied in the 10th/16th century. 244 pages. [According to Möller, the books of the Indians and of the Turks were accompanied by illustrations which can no longer be found in the book.]
  37. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi. Ms. Fatih 4090. Kushājim, Kitāb al-maṣāyid wa’l-maṭārid. Copied in the second half of the 6th/12th century. 20 x 18 cm. 368 pp.
  38. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi. Ms. Koprülü 978. Ibn Qushtimur, Al-Qānūn al-wādiḥ fī muʿālajāt al-jawāriḥ. Copied 666 H/1267 CE and reviewed by the author in 1268 CE. Autograph copy. 30 x 24 cm. 314 pp.
  39. Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Ms. 2099. 1) Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf; 2) Fragments of a treatise on the diseases of falcons; 3) al-Hajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf (Kitāb ḍawārī al-ṭayr); 4) chapters on hunting dogs from Kushājim’s Kitāb al-maṣāyid wa’l-maṭārid; 5) Anonymous, Fī tadbīr al-buzāt wa’l-kilāb; 6) Fragments from the Kitāb al-Wāthiqī. Copied in the 15th century CE. 24 x 18 cm. 386 pp.
  40. Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Ms. 2102. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf.
  41. Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi. Ms. Ahmet III 2016. Al-Hajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf (Ṭibb al-ṭuyūr). Copied in 881/1476. 18 x 13 cm. 252 pp.
  42. Leiden, Universitaire Bibliotheken. Ms. Oriental 8373. Fragment of the al-Hajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in the 7th/13th or 8th/14th century.
  43. Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. Vollers 859/3. Kitāb fī ʿilm al-ṭuyūr (Book about the Science of Birds); also identified as Shāhnāmah (Book of Kings) on fol. 95b. Fol. 40a-95b. Copied on 14 Jumāda II 1085/15 September 1674.
  44. Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. Vollers 753. Kitāb al-bayzara (Book of Falconry); also identified as Shāhnāmah (Book of Kings).
  45. London, British Library. Ms Add. 23417. Abū al-Rūḥ ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī Ḥasān al-Asadī al-Baghdādī, Al-Jamhara fī ʿulūm al-bayzara. Copied in the 17th century CE. 209 x 150 mm. 184 fol. 2nd vol. only.
  46. London, British Library. Ms. Or 8187. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf (Kitāb al-bayzarah). Copied 1201/1787. 15 x 21 cm. 304 pp.
  47. London, British Library. Ms. Or 15639. Al-Waṭwāṭ (attr.), Al-Qānūn al-wādiḥ fī ʿilm al-bayzara (The Clear Canon on the Science of Falconry). 42 pages. Copied in the nineteenth century CE.
  48. London, SOAS Library (School of Oriental and African Studies Library). 46341/2. Kitāb al-bayzara (Book of Falconry), identified in the manuscript or by Adam Gacek with Kushājim, Kitāb al-nuzah. Fol. 26-36.
  49. Lund, University Library. L.O. 24. Carl Johan Tornberg, Codices orientales bibliothecae regiae universitatis lundensis (Lund, 1850), number XXI. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿUmar al-Bāzyār, Kitāb fī ’l-jawāriḥ wa-ḥālātihā al-ṭabīʿiyya wa’l-ʿaraḍiyya (Book about Predatory Animals, their Natural and Contingent States). 208 folios. Presumably copied in North Africa, perhaps Tunis. [Contents of the manuscript to be confirmed]
  50. Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio del Escorial. Derenbourg Ms. 903. Abū al-Rūḥ ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī Ḥasān al-Asadī al-Baghdādī, Al-Jamhara fī ʿulūm al-bayzara. Copied 997/1589. 30 x 22 cm. 614 pages. Complete copy.
  51. Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio del Escorial. Derenbourg Ms. 1947. Usāma ibn Munqidh, Kitāb al-iʿtibār. Copied in 1213 CE. 18 x 14 cm. 136 pages.
  52. Manisa, Genel Kitaplık. Ms.1804. 1) Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf; 2) al-Ḥajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf (Kitāb ḍawārī al-ṭayr). Copied in the 9th/15th – 10th/16th century. 20.7cm x 15.3cm. 280 pp.
  53. Mosul, Al-Ṣāʾigh private religious library. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. Copied in 997/1589.
  54. Mosul, Library of the Yaḥyā Pasha al-Jalīlī school, 332/160/6. Iskandar version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf. [Personal communication Detlef Möller; this requires verification and additional details]
  55. Munich 571/3. Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Fajījī (d. c. 520/1514). Rawḍat al-sulwān (Garden of Consolation).
  56. Oxford, Bodleian Library. Ms. Huntington 348 (= Uri 479). 1) Ibn Waḥshiyya. Kitāb al-Riʾāsa fī ʿilm al-firāsa (misidentification); 2) Al-Ḥajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf; 3) Anonymous, Fī tadbīr al-buzāt wa’l-kilāb; 4) Legal chapters of al-Kushājim, Kitāb al-maṣāyid wa’l-maṭārid. Copied in the 15th or 16th century CE. 15 x 20 cm. 340 pp.
  57. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries. Ms. Marsh 148 (= Uri 393 B.P. 5409). 1) Al-Hajjāj version of the book of Adham and al-Ghiṭrīf (Kitāb manāfiʿ al-ṭayr wa-ʿilājāt dāʾihim ʿalā l-tamām wa’l-kamāl); 2) Anonymous, Fī tadbīr al-buzāt wa’l-kilāb. Copied in 798/1396. 18 x 26 cm. 170 pp.
  58. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Ms. Arabe 2831. Iskandar version of the Ghiṭrīf. Abū Bakr al-Ashʿarī, Kitāb al-jawārih wa-ʿulūm al-bazdara. Copied in 848/1444. 17,5 x 26 cm. 220 pp.
  59. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Ms. Arabe 2832. 1) Ibn Manglī. Uns al-malāʾ bi-waḥsh al-falā; 2) Fī tadbīr al-buzāt wa’l-kilāb. Copied in 923/1517. 13 x 17 cm. 128 pp.
  60. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Ms. Arabe 2834. Al-Fākihī. Manāhij al-surūr wa’l-rashād (Paths of joy and good conduct). 1541 CE. Copied in 1009/1600. 18 x 27 cm. 236 pp.
  61. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Ms. Arabe 3236. Al-Fajījī. Rawḍat al-sulwān (The garden of consolation). 1576 CE. Copied in 1204/1790. 14 x 19. 224 pp.
  62. Princeton University Library, 181. Al-Fajījī. Rawḍat al-sulwān (The garden of consolation).
  63. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University. Ms. O, no. 1434. Al-Qānūn al-wādiḥ fī muʿālajāt al-jawāriḥ (The Clear Canon for Medical Treatments of Birds of Prey). Copied in 1510 CE.
  64. Tehran, Etessami. Catalogue des Mss. II (1933): Ms. 294. 1) Kitāb al-ṣayd wa’l-qanṣ; 2) Kushājim, Kitāb al-maṣāyid wa’l-maṭārid. Copied in 617/1220. 18,5 x 12,5 cm. 248 pp.
  65. Tripoli (Libya), Maktabat al-awqāf 894. Nuzhat al-mulūk wa’l-ṣādāt bi’l-ṭuyūr al-jawāriḥ.
  66. Tunis, al-Maktaba al-Aḥmadiyya. Ms. 14290. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baladī, Al-Kāfī fī ’l-bayzara. Copied in the 12th century CE. Only known copy (unicum).
  67. Tunis, Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie. Ms. 15072. (Formerly Zaytuna, Aḥmadiyya 5452) Copied in 645/1247-8. Autograph produced for Hafsid caliph. Contains chapters on hunting dogs from Kitāb al-Mutawakkilī.
  68. Tunis, Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie. Ms. 13464. (Formerly Zaytuna, Aḥmadiyya 5453) Copy of Tunis, Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie. Ms. 15072. Copied in 1806 and more complete than 15072.
  69. Tunis, al-Maktaba al-Aḥmadiyya. Ms. No.? ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bākharzī (d. 467/1075). Risālat al-ṭard.
  70. Zanjan. Khizānat Mirzā Faḍl Allāh. Ms. 14. Kushājim, Kitāb al-maṣāyid wa’l-maṭārid.