^{page 264 note 1} MSOS., vol. x, 1907, pp. 6 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 264 note 2} RRAL., 1916, pp. 1159 ff.

^{page 264 note 3} JRAS., 1932, pp. 49–76.

^{page 264 note 4} Hyderābād, 1350, p. 75.

^{page 265 note 1} In the set of manuscripts Aya Sofia, 3093–3098, the work is divided into eight volumes, while those Köprülü, 1174 and 1173, belong to a copy consisting of four volumes. The last volume, comprising the years 521–574 (a.s. 3098), is only of half the size of the other volumes.

^{page 265 note 2} Died a.h. 535.

^{page 265 note 3} Died 535.

^{page 265 note 4} Died a.h. 458.

^{page 265 note 5} Died a.h. 550.

^{page 265 note 6} Died a.h. 487.

^{page 266 note 1} Died a.h. 535. He cites many passages verbatim as found in the portions edited by Professor Margoliouth as well as others taken from the lost volumes. These extracts are often without curtailment, contrary with his habit in citing from other works.

^{page 266 note 2} That this biography is also taken from the Tārīkh of Ibn Yūnus is clear from the ṣilah of Ibn Pascual, p. 122, line 15.

^{page 266 note 3} All these biographies are taken from the Tārīkh Baghdad and I have found over twenty such errors, which will be noted in the footnotes of the edition.

^{page 267 note 1} Under the year 571 he has four lines of a biography of Ibn 'Asākir, in which he tells us that he heard many Ḥadīth and composed a history of Damascus in eighty big volumes and that he was one of the supporters of the Ash'arī school, even writing a book named Tahdhīb al-Muftarī (printed Damascus, 1347). This biography has caused the copyist of the manuscript to insert a protest in which he says that Ibn al-Jauzi's words “He had knowledge” were uncalled for as Ibn al-Asakir was a better scholar than Ibn al-Jauzi.

^{page 267 note 2} This is an apparent act of spitefulness as Muṭayyin, who is the only Shaikh of al-Iṣbahānī whom he mentions by name, was considered as untrustworthy (vide Lisān al-Mīzān, v, 233).

^{page 269 note 1} On the western side of Baghdād.

^{page 270 note 1} The Librarian of the School of Oriental Studies has kindly lent me the copy belonging to that Institution, for which I express my thanks in this place.