The Kitab al Wusla il al Habib fi Wasfi t-Tayyibati wat-Tib

This book exists in at least ten handwritten copies, each with minor variations and additions. One manuscript is in the British Library (shelfmark Or. 6388). Others are in Aleppo, Damascus, Cairo, Bursa, Mosul, Paris and Bankipore in India. Professor Maxime Rodinson describes and analyses the manuscripts at length in his study ‘Recherches sur les documents Arabes relatifs à la cuisine’ in the Revue des études islamiques in 1949. Unfortunately circumstances prevented him from giving a full translation of the recipes. Charles Perry is now working in the United States on a full edition and translation.