Nihāyat al-Arab fī Maʿrifat Ansāb al-ʿArab

The manuscript is in fact executed in different hands: there is a change at pages 153-192, where the hand is much less composed and where there are many marginal additions, again at 95-114, with a very composed hand, again at 253-333, where red rubrication is omitted, and then from 333-370 again another hand. Margins contain: several ḥashiyya and general commentary notes, correction notes, preparation notes for red filling in of main text, which are regularly cut off. On p. 5 there are notes in Maghrebi script, and on 335 several lines are crossed out. The two flyleafs before the title page contain a table of contents, and a similar such page has been inserted between pages 44 and 45. The title page has the title written in a descending triangle. Below the title a note gives the author’s death date, but another note comments that this is mistaken, as it is the death date not of this al-Qalqashandī, but of the one who wrote ''Ṣubḥ al-aʿshā''.