Epigraph
Ta´ríkhu Miṣr, the History of Egypt, by Abú ‘Umar Muḥammad b. Yúsuf al-Kindí (d. A.H. 350), edited from the unique MS. in the British Museum (Add. 23,324) by A. Rhuvon Guest. (In the Press.)
The Ansáb of as-Sam`ání, reproduced in facsimile from the British Museum MS. (Or. 23,355), with Indices by H. Loewe. (In the Press.)
“E. J. W. GIBB MEMORIAL”.
The Funds of this Memorial are derived from the interest accruing from a sum of money given by the late MRS. GIBB of Glasgow, to perpetuate the Memory of her beloved son
“The worker pays his debt to Death;
His work lives on, nay, quickeneth.”
The following memorial verse is contributed by ‘Abdu´l-Ḥaqq Ḥámid Bey of the Imperial Ottoman Embassy in London, one of the Founders of the New School of Turkish Literature, and for many years an intimate friend of the deceased.
“E. J. W. GIBB MEMORIAL.”
ORIGINAL TRUSTEES.
Note
p. 51, l. 6. For Parg read Burk or Purg, and correct the note accordingly. See Guy Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, p. 292.
p. 54, l. 28. For the infectious cankers of the age read the cankers which infect age after age.
p. 85, l. 19. For (sáḥib al-qulúb) read (ṣáḥi´l-qulúb). Ṣáḥí, “sober,” is the antithesis of maghlúb, “enraptured.”
p. 127, l. 17. For al-Inṭákí read al-Anṭákí.
p. 131, n. 2. Add, See Goldziher in ZDMG., 61, 75 ff., and a passage in Yáqút’s Irshád al-Aríb, ed. by Margoliouth, vol. iii, pt. i, 153, 3 ff.; cited by Goldziher in JRAS. for 1910, p. 888.
p. 182, l. 26. Sháhmurghí is probably a mistake for siyáh murghí, “a blackbird.” Cf. my edition of the Tadhkirat al-Awliyá, ii, 259, 23.
p. 257, l. 1. For t`aṭíl read ta`ṭíl.
p. 323, l. 10. For Miṣṣíṣí read Maṣṣíṣí.