Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 240 x 130 mm leaf [165 x 70 mm written]Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redBinding: British Museum red half-leather bindingCondition: Minor water damage; some folios mutilated and repaired (see especially ff. 1-4 and 369-78)Marginalia: Notes and corrections by more than one hand
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 246 x 164 mm leaf [173 x 115 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; a leaf has been left unfoliated between ff. 101 and 102Ruling:
Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript: NaskhInk: Black, with headings in redBinding: British Museum bindingCondition: Minor water damage towards front and back, some re-inking at frontMarginalia: Marginal annotations by more than one hand; f. 1v has a line of HebrewSeals: f. 2r
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 260 x 160 mm leaf [230 x 130 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling: No ruling visible; an average of 21 lines per page; vertical spacing an average of 10 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: BlackBinding: British Museum bindingCondition: Some tears and wormdamage repaired; text is defective at beginningMarginalia: None
Abstract: Aphorisms on medicine. The edition by Albert Zakī Iskandar (1961) does not use this manuscript.Binding note: Golden-brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers are similarly blind tooled and stamped with a border consisting of fillets defining a panel with a central lozenge stamp with impression of a floral stamp on each side on the vertical axis. Impression of the same stamp in each corner of the panel. Paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Headings in red ink. Occasional marginal annotations. Light cream-biscuit paper, with laid lines visible ; frame-ruled. Reading statements on the margins throughout ("balaghtu qirāʾatan"). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements. Pagination in pencil using Arabic numerals (starts with "3" on fol. 2a). According to the numbering of the quires, some leaves are apparently misplaced ; leaves missing between fol. 29 and 30 ; a few leaves disbound. Water stains on the margins. Worm-eaten. Extremely fragile.Some quires (mainly quinions) are numbered in black ink using Arabic ordinals (see sādisah on fol. 39a; sābiʻah on fol. 49a; khāmisah (!) on fol. 58a; thāminah on 61a; tāsiʻah on fol. 71a; ʻāshirah on fol. 81a).Inscription (partly erased) on the margin of the colophon, mentioning a Shihāb al-Dīn, dated -86? (fol. 88b).Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 9 Safar 681 May 19, 1282 (fol. 88b).Incipit: قال ابو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي دعاني ما وجدت عليه فصول بقراط من الاختلاط وعدم النظم والتقصير به عن ذكري جوامع الطبّ كلّها مع ما مال اليه علمه من سهوله تعلق علم الفصول بالنفس الى ان اذكر جوامع الصناعة وعلمها على طريق الفصول ... فصول في الاسطقسات 2أ الاسطقسات هي الاشيا المفرداتExplicit: قد ذكرنا الكثير ممّا حضرنا من جمل صناعة الطبّ وجوامعه وفيما ذكرنا من ذلك وارشدنا اليه كفاية وبلاغ ولواهب العقل الحمد بلا نهاية كما هو اهله تم الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه
Abstract: An unknown work containing descriptions of diseases and methods of curing them.Contents.مجهول في الطب العربيOwnership note by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Kibsī.عبارة عن أثني عشر ورقة بدون غلاف من جزء من كتاب في الطب العربي ومكتوب بالمداد الأسود والأحمر يبدو أنها مكتوبة بقلم صاحب المكتبة العلامة الكبسيIncipit: بداية الموجود من المخطوط: الكحال الاخر للفقرا يؤخذ درهم زئبق يلقم بدرهم رصاص اسود ويضاف اليهما...ادوية السلاق والجرب في العينين...Explicit: ادوية امراض القلب والكبد عصير العنب المعمول افضل غذا ودوا لضعف الكبد...ثم يشمس ثم يوضع فى جرار على راسها ويجعل على افواههاإلى هنا انتهى الموجود من الكتابةPersian naksh script, written in black and red ink. Unbound, possibly from a larger work.18-25 lines.
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 356 x 245 mm leaf [254 x 174 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil;Ruling: Misṭarah; 35 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cmScript: Naskh; copied by Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-‘Arab in Dhū al-ḤijjahInk: Black ink, with rubricated heading (f. 1v) and overlinings in black and redDecoration: The text area of all pages are framed in single lines of black ink; the title of Book 3 is written in gold in a large (174 x 164 mm) panel illuminated in black, blue, red, gold and greenBinding: British Museum bindingCondition: Defective at beginning and end; minor water damage to all margins, but not affecting text; worse at head and towards rear of volumeMarginalia: Very few, with the exception of minor corrections and the occasional longer marginal addition (e.g. f. 8v)