Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 896Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest late 19th century ; bookseller's label suggests terminus ante quem in the range of 1886 to 1916.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Persian [crossed out] Arabic Manuscripts (Heyworth Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owen notes" -- b. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- c. Recycled card with notes in pencil "Maghribi script – N. African script (not incl. Egypt) | same writer as that of the pencilled ms. [i.e. Isl. Ms. 898] | apparently transcribed from anr. ms. (on right) & his notes on how to puzzle it out (on left)"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 45Binding: Fiber boards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in brown, blue and dark pink) with dark brown cloth over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted wove paper ; sewn in heavy cream thread, four stations, over two wide tapes / bands (flexible sewing) ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, board and cloth, etc.Support: European "laid" paper (no watermarks visible) upon which leaves carrying the transcript have been affixed (every other leaf) ; compare Isl. Ms. 898.Script: Maghribī script ; crudely executed in pencil in imitation of the exemplar, mainly serifless and rounded with sweeping descenders, spur-like tail on alif of prolongation, slight effect of inclination to the right, etc. (compare transcript of Isl. Ms. 898).Layout: Transcript written mainly in 17 lines per page ; every other leaf carries a varying number of clarifications or glosses of vocabulary from the Arabic text as well as notes in English.Collation: i, V+1 (11), XI (29), VIII (45), i ; leaves of transcript have been mounted in such a way as to allow space for annotations on facing pages, many of which are thus partially or fully blank ; catchwords present in transcript (as they appeared in the exemplar) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, appears only on leaves carrying the transcript.Explicit: "والغزال في السحراء والطيور النعام في السحراء ايضا وهذا ما وجدنا في الاخبار والله يوفقنا لما يجب ويحبه ويرضاه كملت"Incipit: "فصل في معرفة قبائل المغرب الذين هم محدودين في حكومة السلطان الاعظم الخليفة الافخم الشريف الجليل الماجد الاصيل مولانا سليمن [سليمان] بن مولانا محمد بن مولانا عبد الله بن مولانا اسماعيل نصره [؟] الله وخلد ملكه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Crude transcript (arranged for annotation) of an excerpt of a larger work containing an account of the tribes and regions of Morocco under the ʻAlawī sulṭān, Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʻīil (d.1822).