Kitāb rawḍat al-nāẓir lil-Sulṭān al-Malik al-Nāṣir
Subtitle: s.n.
By: taʾlīf ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAlii al-Nāshirī. 1084, i.e. 1673]
Contributors: France. Bibliothèque nationale.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1673
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: ara
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Caliphs -- Biography; Islamic Empire -- Biography; Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Other titles: Rawḍat al-nāẓir lil-Malik al-Nāṣir
Notes: MSS. (transcripts, handwritten)

Title page appears on folio 10.

Text of main MSS. begins on folio 11, starts "al-ḥamdu lillah alladhī..." and continue to folio 203, ends "...wa-ḥaythu intahá al-kitāb...bi-iḥsān ilá yawm al-dīn"

Folios 1-8 and 204-[215] includes poetry and anecdotes by several authors ; folio 9 excerpted from Tārikh Ibn Khallikān, v.1.

Colophon:  "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min taṣnif hādhā al-kitāb...sanat sitt wa-thamānī māyah min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah"

Transcriber's note: "wa-Kāna al-farāgh min nisākhatihi...sanat arbaʻ wa-thamānīn wa-alf bi-khaṭṭ Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim...bi-ʻināyat...Jamāl al-Dīn...al-Muṭahhar ibn...ibn ʻAlī ibn Jabalah al-Hadawī..."

Folios 6-7: missing pieces from top, folio 7 remicrofilmed after mounting the missing piece.

Folio 3 duplicate in microfilming.

Written to al-Malik al-Nāṣir [Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻil, d. 1424] and named : "Rawḍat al-nāẓir lil-Malik al-Nāṣir' folio 11.

Consist of introd., 7 parts and conclusion cover the following subjects successively: 1. The Birth of the Prophet--2. The Companions (Ṣaḥābah)--3. The Caliphs--4. Kings and Sultans--5. Scholars--6. Virtuous and holymen--7. Statesmen--8. Linguisticians and poets--9. Islamic law and judgements.

Microfilm. Paris; Bibliothèque nationale service photographique, departement des manuscrits. 1975. 1 reel 35 mm.