Kitāb al- jawhar al-farīd fī tārīkh madīnat Zabīd
By: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Asīr.
Contributors: Ibn Asīr, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1543?; Janadī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, d. 1332?; British Museum.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1642
Place of publication: [s.l
Language: ara
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 636
Subjects: Zabīd (Yemen) -- Biography; Zabīd (Yemen) -- History; Yemen (Republic) -- History; Yemen -- Biography
Other titles: al-Jawhar al-faīd fī tārīkh Zabīd; Tuḥfat al-zaman fī aʻyān ahl al-Yaman; Tuḥfat al-zaman fī tārīkh sādāt al-Yaman
Notes: MSS. (handwritten) with marginal notes ; starts "al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻālamīn wa-al-ṣalātu wa-al-salām ʻalá Syyidinā ʻalá Sayyidinā [sic] Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq al-Amīn ..." and ends "wa-kāna al-farāgh min taʻlīqihi fī niṣf shahr Jumād al-Ākhirah min shuhūr sanat tisʻimāyah [sic] wa-khamsīn min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah"

Colophon: "wa-qadd taḥarrara raqmihā wa-tasṭīrihā ʻalá yaddi kātibihā ... Manṣūr ibn Sulaymān ... fī shahr al-Muḥarram al-Ḥarām sanat 1052"

Folios numbering supplied by the British Museum.

Title supplied by the Britith Museum: Ibn al-Ahdal. Ulamá al-Yaman

Author's name represented on the title page as: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Asīr.

Authority for author's name: List of the Author's works listed in folios 152-155 ; al-Zirikliʾs al-Aʻlām ; kaḥḥālah's Muʻjam al-muʾallifīn ; Ḥājī khalīfahʻs kashf al-ẓunūn.

Work ascribed as an abridgement of al-Janadī's al-Sulūk fī ṭabaqāt al-ʻulamāʾ wa-al-mulūk, known also as Ṭabaqāt al-Janadī, and Tārīkh al-Janadī.

Title varies in several sources: "al-Jawhar al-farīd fī tārīkh Zabīd" p. 1 ; "Tuḥfat al-zaman fī aʻyān ahl al-Yaman"; "Tuḥfat al-zaman fī tārīkh Sādāt al-Yaman".

Microfilm. London ; British Museum Photographic Service. [1985?] 1 reel ; 35mm.