Biography and History. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1056 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 704 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 704. 1056. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 161. Twenty-three lines in a page. The first part of the same work. Plainly written. Imperfect at the end. It extends to the beginning of the article of Abu’l-yumn (no. 248, ed. Wüstenfeld). The last leaf is fol. 152, which has been misplaced, as has already been remarked by a reader. Fol. 161, which contains a list of names beginning with عبد , does not belong to this volume. Worm-eaten. [Gaikwar.]