Copied in A.H. 1065 (A.D. 1655)., Preceded by 1 leaf of notes., and Treatise on the river Nile.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Not identical with Fī manbaʻ al-Nīl (Brockelmann, S III, p. 1255) of al-Akfahsī (d. 1405), since this work mentions events which occurred much later (cf. leaf 62 recto, where mention is made of the year A.H. 897, and of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī)., and On leaf 8 recto is a map of the Mountain of the Moon and of the source of the Nile.
Added title page illustrated in color., Contains music., Edited by D. Carrillo., No more published., Published in 24 numbers from 1861 to 1863., and With this is bound: Carrillo y Ancona, Crescencio, bp. of Yucatan, 1837-1897. Historia de Welinna. Merida, 1862.
"G. Steevens" stamped on t.p.; bookplate of Frederic Perkins., Errors in pagination., First edition, with dedicatory sonnet to Sir Thomas Mounson, signed R.A., and With manuscript annotations.
Publisher:
for N[icholas] L[ing] C[uthbert] B[urby] and T[homas] H[aies],
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Frederic--Bookplate and Steevens, G.--Stamp