Manuscripts

No.	Library / Collection	City	Country	Shelfmark / Identifier	Notes
1	Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi	Istanbul	Turkey	Ahmet III 3472	The finest and most complete illustrated copy; dated 1206 CE (AH 602), possibly author’s autograph or very early exemplar.
2	Bibliothèque nationale de France (Dépt. des Manuscrits)	Paris	France	Arabe 5101	Early copy; text complete but illustration spaces left blank.
3	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek	Munich	Germany	Cod. arab. 597	Early incomplete copy.
4	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Berlin	Germany	Ms. or. fol. 3306	Composite manuscript with Al-Jazarī text bound with other mechanical treatises; 17th century.
5	University Library of Leiden	Leiden	Netherlands	Or. 110	Fragmentary copy of portions of the work.
6	British Library (formerly British Museum)	London	United Kingdom	Or. 13606	Seventeenth-century copy.
7	Library of Congress (Arabic manuscripts)	Washington D.C.	USA	Ms. Ar. 26	Incomplete text; unillustrated.
8	Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi (Fatih Collection)	Istanbul	Turkey	No. 3606	Illustrated copy, 14th century.
9	Biblioteca Ambrosiana	Milan	Italy	X 145 sup.	Fragmentary.
10	Chester Beatty Library	Dublin	Ireland	Arabic 3306	Partial text.
11	Royal Asiatic Society	London	United Kingdom	Arabic ms. no. 9	Short excerpts only.
12	Museum of Fine Arts	Boston (MA)	USA	Folios 13.823, 13.954, 16.531 etc.	From the 1354 Cairo copy by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Izmīrī.
13	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York	USA	Acc. 45.140.2, 45.129.8 etc.	Illustrated folios, same Mamluk copy (1354 Cairo).
14	Harvard Art Museums	Cambridge (MA)	USA	Inv. 1919.138	Dated AH 755 / 1354 Cairo; scribe al-Izmīrī.