'Flowers in the Chronicles of the Ages', by Muhammad ibn Iyas (Egypt, ca, 852/1448 - 930/1523). This work is not the full history, but is a book with news, stories, anecedotes, and some historical facts. The texts will take the reader to another time and place through the narrative telling stories of princes and kings, political life and society - told in the vernacular used in Egypt at the time.