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.