Persian manuscript.- Mir'at Makkah [The Mirror of Makkah], vol.1 only, manuscript on paper, 213ff., fine decorated first page, Qajar, 1880.

Persian manuscript.- Mir'at Makkah [The Mirror of Makkah], vol.1 only of a larger work entitled Mir'at al-Haramayn [The Mirror of Two Santuaries], Persian manuscript on blue paper, 213ff., 12-14 lines to the page written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, outer margin in red, first page decorated with an illuminated head-piece in colours and gold, intercolumnar rules in gold, lacking catchwords, generally in very good condition, broken and hinges split, contemporary citron morocco, paper label to spine, upper cover slightly stained, folio, Qajar, [last quarter of 19th century].

⁂ Anonymous Persian translation of an original Ottoman Turkish text by Eyyub Sabri Pasha (d.1890), written during the reign of Sultan 'Abd al-Hamid Il bin 'Abd al-Majid I (reigned 1876-1909). Complete in itself, this volume was probably part of a larger work on the Holy Sanctuaries (Mecca and Medina) and the pilgrimage routes in the Hejaz, printed in Ottoman Turkish in 5 volumes by the Bahriyye Press, 1888, with other Ottoman Turkish editions printed in Constantinople between 1884 and 1889 and in Arabic in Cairo.