Three treatises on medicine [‎front-i] (7/628)

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Ref: Or 5620

The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+308+i. It was created in 18th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Contents:

(1) Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology (ff. 1r-59v);
(2) Ṣubunrī (صبنري), Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah (كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة, ff. 60v-74v);
(3) Manual of therapeutics (ff. 75v-308r).

The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. at the end of the third text, claims that the manuscript from which the text was copied was completed on Tuesday 21 Ṣafar 1114/18 July 1702 (f. 307v, lines 2-9). The present manuscript must therefore have been copied after this date.

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Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+308+i

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 220 x 125 mm leaf [135 x 75 mm written]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink visible on some folios (not on ff. 56r-76r; begins again from 1 at f. 76v; errors in foliation and corrections from f. 104r to end of volume), British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum binding

Condition: Defective at beginning, ff. 1-2 mutilated and repaired with no loss of text, tidemarks at head especially towards front of volume

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand overall, but see especially ff. 57r-59v

Seals: F. 1r

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Arabic in Arabic script

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Reference: Or 5620
Title: Three treatises on medicine
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 60r, 75r, 308v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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