كتاب البراهين البينات في بيان حقائق الحيوانات / لمؤلفه العالم العلامة والمدقق الفهامة الشيخ محمد افندي الاسكندراني

Treatise on zoology in two parts (maqālah), an introduction and a conclusion on zoology. The text is followed by a table of contents on fol. 374b-386 and by nine autograph letters praising the text, signed Maḥmūd al-Ḥamzāwī, muftī Dimashq al-Shām (fol. 388b, with seal), Muḥammad Salīm al-ʻAṭṭār (fol. 389a, with seal), Muḥammad al-ʻUthmānī (fol. 389b, with seal), Muḥammad al-Ṭanṭawī (fol. 390a, with seal), ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Usṭuwānī (fol. 390b, with seal), Muḥammad ʻĀrif al-Munīr(?) al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 391a), Muḥammad ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀbidīn (fol. 391b, with seal), Bakrī ibn Ḥāmid al-ʻAṭṭār (fol. 392a, with seal), and Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Maydānī (fol. 392b). For the description of a similar list of autograph approbations on a copy of another text by the same author, see Aʻyān Dimashq fī al-qarn al-thālith ʻashar wa-niṣf al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar, 1972 (2nd. ed.), p. 337. i, 392, ii leaves : paper ; 236 x 189 (172 x 130) mm.