拍品專文
A 10th century copy of the second book of this work is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Vol.I, Dublin, 1955, p.49, no.3123). There are four copies of this work in the British Library, one of which is dated AH 511/1117-18 AD (OR 8291), two of which are 13th century (OR 8290 and 8927) and one of which is 17th century (IO ISL 2880/5; all in P. Stocks and C. Baker, Subject-Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, p.28). There is another later copy with a list of all the books (kitab) in the John Rylands Library in Manchester. That is dated AH 1117/1705-06 AD (A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts, Manchester, 1934, pp.217-229, no.130 [679]).