For centuries it had been the favourite Arabic cookery book of the Turks. The original manuscript formerly held in the library of the Aya Sofya Mosque is still in Istanbul; it is now MS Ayasofya 3710 in the Süleymaniye Library. At some point a Turkish sultan commissioned very a handsome copy now MS Oriental 5099 in the British Library in London. At a still later time a total of about 260 recipes were added to Kitâb al Tabîkh s original 160 and the expanded edition was retitled Kitâb Wasf al-Atima al-Mutada (my translation of it also appears in Medieval Arab Cookery); three currently known copies of K.Wasf survive all in Turkey - two of them in the library of the Topkapi Palace showing the Turks high regard for this book. Finally in the late fifteenth century Sirvâni made a Turkish translation of Kitâb al Tabîkh to which he added some recipes current in his own day the first Turkish cookery book.