78 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. ab. xliv.

and el 'Abbas. His statement that he found this pedigree as it stands "in the highest authorities" is no doubt pure invention. XLVi The quahty of the verse is vile and is on a par with the Elizabethan

ballad of John Symon entitled "Pleasant Poesie, or sweete Nosegay of fragrant smellyng Flowers gathered in the Garden of heavenly Pleasure,

the holy and blessed Bible, to the tune of the Black Almayne." The following lines from this work (quoted in the Quarterly Review of April,

191 3) are very similar to the result of our author's efforts, and the very title quoted at once recalls the florid nomenclature of Arabic works :

Isacke was no weede, Nor Jacob in very deede : Joseph was a flower of price, God dyd hym save from cruell device; Also Moses eke we find; And Aaron likewyse up we bynde, Josua is not out of mynd.

XLix Cp. BA, III and see note thereon. L Sheikh Tatai was Muhammad ibn Ibrahim el Tatai, Grand Kadi of Egypt. He died in 1094 a.h. (1683 A.D.). He is not mentioned by Hagi Khalfa.

LI Cp. BA, IV. El Shadhali, the founder of the religious order of the

Shadhalia, was Abu el Hasan 'Ali el Shadhali ibn 'Abdulla, a descendant of Abu Talib. He was born near Tunis and died in 1258 a.d. He was the

author of Hizb el Bahr ("the Litany of the Sea") and other works on the duties of worship. (See Huart, p. 278.)

Lii Cp. BA, v.

The Imam Abu el Hasan is, I think, 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muham-

mad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf el Manufi. He was born at Cairo in

857 A.H. (1453 A.D.).

Liii El 'Adawi is possibly 'Ali ibn Ahmad el Sa'idi, a Maliki doctor. The 'Adawia order was founded by Sheikh 'Adi ibn Musafir in the second half of the twelfth century a.d.

LV Cp. BA, V.

Lviii Cp. BA, VI, and see note thereto. A Yusef ibn 'Omar is mentioned in Hagi Khalfa 's Lexicoji (Vol. in, p. 413) as a commentator on the Risdla of el Shafa'i; and another, surnamed "el Kaduzi," as a commen-

tator on a Hanafite mukhtasar by el Imam Abu el Husayn Ahmad {v. Vol.

v, p. 455). The date of neither is given.

LXiv The only difference between this paragraph and para, vii of BA

is "el 'Arab" (AB) for "el Anzab" (BA). See note to BA, vii.

Lxxv. This feki Bishara's importance is greatly exaggerated. He is not even mentioned in the Tabakdt Wad Dayfxdla {i.e. D 3), although much space is allotted to his contemporaries, the pupils of Ibrahim el Bulad.

Lxxvii The word spelt " Gharbawingi " is intended to be pronounced " Gharbawinchi."

Lxxxi "Letters patent" is a\s^,plur. o^ya>.\. Frequent mention is made in the Tabakdt Wad Dayfidla of the grant of similar privileges to holy men.