Historia dos Soberanos Mohametanos das primeiras quatro dyastias,
e de parte da quinta, que reinarao na Mauritania, escripta em Arabe por Abu-Mohammed Assaleh, e traduiza, e annotada por Fr. Joze de Santo Antonio Moura. Lisbon Typografia da Mesma Academia 1828
First edition, 4to, pp. [iv], 454, [iv (advertisements)]. Text in Portuguese. A very good copy rebound in modern half calf over cloth boards; minor damp-staining along the lower fore-edge.
COPAC lists 3 copies (BL, Cambridge and Oxford)
Portuguese translation of part of the popular and influential mediaeval chronicle of Morocco, "Kitab al-Anis al-Mutrib bi-Rawd al-Qirtas fi Akbar Muluk al-Maghrib wa-taj ay Tarich madinat Fas" ("The Entertaining Companion Book in the Garden of Pages from the Chronicle of the Kings of Morocco and the History of the City of Fes"), said to have been commissioned by the Marinid Sultan Abu Said Uthman II. The author is commonly stated as the scholar Ali ibn Abdallah Ibn-Abi-Zar al-Fasi (d. c. 1320/40?) from Fez.