Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn ʻan arbaʻīn min arbaʻīn li-arbaʻīn fī arbaʻīn / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥaddith al-Shām Nāṣir al-Sunnah afḍal al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn awḥad al-ʻUlamāʼ ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAsākir al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1287

Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black.

According to a note on f. 39r, copy completed on 13 Ramaḍān 686 AH [October 21, 1287 AD] in the mosque of Damascus from the copy of al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū ... al-Birzālī.

Bound in brown morocco, stamped in blind.

Ownership statement on inside front cover signed Benjamin Duprat (Librarian of the French Institute of the Imperial Library).

With this is bound: Juzʻ fīhi ʻAsharat majālis min amālī al-Shaykh al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Khallāl (ff. 41r-58v) -- Juzʼ fīhi Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 63r-77r) -- Juzʼ fīhi thamānūn ḥadīthan ʻan thamānīna shaykhan / Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājurrī (ff. 81r-96v) -- Juzʼ fīhi aḥādīth Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻAyyāsh ... al-Tūnī ʻan shuyūkhih (ff. 98r-122r) -- al-Juz al-awwal min Asmā al-mubhamah fī al-anbā al-muḥkamah / al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (ff. 126r-144v).

MS Arab SM55. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Arabic.