Two Arabic manuscripts copied by Shaykh Yusuf al-Taj during his residence in the Middle East have survived to the present day. They are Sprenger 677 in the Berlin Library(1) and Yahuda 3872 in the Garrett Collection in the Princeton University Library(2).

Sprenger 677 contains a single work, the short version of `Abd al-Rahman al-Jami's al-Durrah al-Fakhirah.(3) The colophon of the manuscript reads as follows:

Yahuda 3827 contains three works: al-Jami's al-Durrah al-Fakhirah, his Risalah fi al-Wujud(4) and `Abd al-Ghafur al-Lari's Commentary (sharh) on al-Durrah al-Fakhirah. The colophon of al-Durrah al-Fakhirah is on folio 23a and reads as follows:

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The colophon for Risalah fi al-Wujud, on folio 27b, reads as follows:

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And the colophon for al-Lari's Commentary, on folio 39a, is the following:

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1. See Ahlwardt, Wilhelm, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften der königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin. Berlin 1887-1899. Vol. II, p. 535.

2. See Mach, Rudolf, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section) in the Garrett Collection, Princeton University Library. Princeton, 1977. P. 205, No. 2393, 1(3872), No. 2394, 1(3872), and p. 267, No. 3123, 1(3872).

3. See al-Jami, Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad, al-Durrah al-Fakhirah. Translated by Nicholas Heer together with al-Jami's Glosses and the Commentary of `Abd al-Ghafur al-Lari under the title The Precious Pearl. Albany 1979. For the Arabic texts of these works see al-Jami, Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad, al-Durrah al-Fakhirah. With the Arabic commentary of `Abd al-Ghafur al-Lari and the Persian commentary of `Imad al-Dawlah. Edited by Nicholas Heer and A. Musavi Behbahani. Wisdom of Persia Series XIX. Tehran 1980.

4. See Heer, Nicholas, "Al-Jami's Treatise on Existence" in Islamic Philosophical Theology edited by Parviz Morewedge, Albany 1979, pp. 223-256.