The third volume includes 307 manuscripts from the collection of Alexandria Municipal pertaining to history and related subjects such as biographies, Sīra, and geography. This collection reviewed in the catalog contains a number of exceptionally significant, rare and old manuscripts among these rarities are: al-Takmila li-Wafayāt al-Naqala- ‘Supplement of Wafayāt al-Naqala (the Deceased Transmitters of Hadith)’ by al-Mundhiriy (d. 656 H.) with an ijaza )literally meaning ‘to make lawful,’ an ijaza was the authorization given by an author that a copy of his treatise is correct and can be transmitted to others(; al-Ahkām al-Sultāniyya- ‘Sultanic Decrees’ by  al-Māwardiy transcribed in 798 H. al-I‘lām bi-San al-Hijra ilā al-Šām- ‘Informing of the Justification for Immigration to al-Šām’ (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) by al-Biqā‘iy transcribed during the lifetime’s of the author in 880 H.; al-Anīs al-Mutrib- ‘The Ravishing Companion’ by Ibn Abī-Zar‘ transcribed during the lifetime’s of the author in 726 H.; al-Dur al-Thamīn fī Sīrat Nūr-al-Dīn- ‘The Precious Gems in the Biography of Nūr-al-Dīn’ by Ibn Qādī Šabha transcribed during the lifetime’s of the author in 874 H., among other written masterpieces.

Number of pages: 287.

The General Organization of the Alexandria Library, 1999.