An early copy of Kitab Fada'il al-Jihad ('The Book of the Virtues of War'), a translation into Turkish by Baki Efendi (1526-1600) of Mashari’ al-Ashwaq ila Masar’i al-Ushshaq ('The Paths of Longing to the Battlegrounds of Lovers [of God]') by Ibn al-Nahhas (d.1411), signed by Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullah, dated Thursday 20 Jumada I 1072 AH/11 January 1662 AD

Mashari’ al-Ashwaq ila Masar’i al-Ushshaq is a book written by Ahmad b. Ibrahim b. Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Dumyaati (d.1411), commonly known as Imam ibn al-Nahhas. He was an Islamic scholar who died fighting the Byzantine army in Egypt. 

The calligrapher states in the colophon that the present manuscript was copied from the original version translated by Abdulbaki Efendi (1526-1600), an Ottoman poet and scholar who raised to fame under Suleyman the Magnificent. Efendi's original copy of the Kitab Fada'il al-Jihad is now in the Millet Manuscript Library in Istanbul (inv. no.Ali Emiri, Ser'iyye, nr.1286). The present manuscript is the earliest recorded copy of this translation. 

Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (1795-1867) was a renowned French orientalist. Studying under Silvestre de Sacy in Paris from 1815, he was later attached to the French minister in Rome where he was charged with investigating manuscripts. He then joined the division of oriental manuscripts at the Royal Library in Paris in 1824 and succeeded to De Sacy at the School of Living Oriental Languages. From 1847, Reinaud presided over the Asiatic Society, and in 1858 took on the role of conservator of oriental manuscripts at the Imperial Library.

Joseph Toussaint Reinaud made several important scholarly contributions, including an inventory of the Duc de Blacas' collection in 1828, as well as various historical and geographical essays on the ancient Eastern world.