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Folio 1b from Nafīs ibn ‘Iwāḍ al-Kirmānī's Sharḥ al-Asbāb wa-al-‘alāmāt (Commentary on the 'Causes and Symptoms' [of Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī]) featuring an illuminated opening in opaque watercolors and gold. The text is written in a fine and careful naskh script. Dense black ink with headings in red. The text has been written within frames formed of three black thin lines, two filled with gilt, and an outside blue line. The gray, glossy paper is very thin with wavy laid lines.

MS A 60, fol. 1b

Folio 60a from Alī al-Jilānī's Sharḥ al-Qānūn (Commentary on the Canon) featuring two marginal diagrams of the upper jaw and teeth. The biscuit semi-glossy paper is thick and has wavy indistinct laid lines. It is waterstained and wormeaten. The text is written in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.

MS A 62, fol. 60a

Folio 60b from Alī al-Jilānī's Sharḥ al-Qānūn (Commentary on the Canon) featuring a marginal diagram of the side of the skull, labeled sudgh, which refers to the squamous part of the temporal bone. The biscuit semi-glossy paper is thick and has wavy indistinct laid lines. It is waterstained and wormeaten. The text is written in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.

MS A 62, fol. 60b

Folio 5b from Ibn Abī Ṣādiq's Sharḥ Kitāb al-Masā’il fī al-ṭibb lil-muta‘allimīn (Commentary on 'The Questions on Medicine for Beginners'). The thick, biscuit-colored paper has a nearly matte finish and is water damaged, stained, and slightly wormeaten. The text is written in a medium-large, careful, consistent, compact naskh script with occasional vocalization. The text area has been frame-ruled. Brown-black ink with headings in red and black.

MS A 66, fol. 5b

Folio 167b from al-Āqsarā’ī's Ḥall al-Mūjiz (The Key to the Mūjiz) featuring a schematic diagram of the eye and visual system at the bottom of the folio. The biscuit, semi-glossy paper has visible laid lines, with only an occasional trace of a chain line. The text is written in black ink with headings in red.

MS A 67, fol. 167b

Folio 302b from al-Āqsarā’ī's Ḥall al-Mūjiz (The Key to the Mūjiz) featuring the colophon. The biscuit, semi-glossy paper has visible laid lines, with only an occasional trace of a chain line. The text is written in black ink with headings in red. There are notes written in the top and right margins.

MS A 67, fol. 302b

Folio 11a from Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī al-Āstarābādhī's Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar mawsūm bi-Qānūnchah (Commentary on the abridgement known as Qānūnchah). The beige, matte-finish, thin paper has text is written in a small naskh script on it. Black ink with headings and overlinings in a purplish-red ink. There are notes in black and purplish-red ink in the top and left margins.

MS A 68, fol. 11a

Folio 5b from Qiwām al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī's Manzūmat al-mufarriḥ al-Qiwāmī (Qiwam's Poem of Rejoicing) featuring the end of the prose introduction. The thin, lightly-glossed, brown paper is now quite discoloured. It is fibrous and has inclusions, with horizontal laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small professional calligraphic naskh script, fully vocalized using black ink.

MS A 86, fol. 5b

Folio 6a from Qiwām al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī's Manzūmat al-mufarriḥ al-Qiwāmī (Qiwam's Poem of Rejoicing) featuring the beginning of a poem on medicine. The thin, lightly-glossed, brown paper is now quite discoloured. It is fibrous and has inclusions, with horizontal laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small professional calligraphic naskh script, fully vocalized using black ink.

MS A 86, fol. 6a

Folio 45b from Muḥammad Arzānī's Mufarriḥ al-qulūb (The Rejoicing of the Heart) featuring ventricles or cells of the brain drawn in the middle of the text. The text is written in a medium-small to medium-large nasta‘liq script. The text area has been frame-ruled. Black ink with headings in red and red overlinings. The paper is yellow-brown and brittle; only very wavy and broad horizontal laid lines are visible. The paper is very wormeaten and waterstained, especially at the top.

MS P 13, fol. 45b

Folio 315a from Muḥammad Arzānī's Mufarriḥ al-qulūb (The Rejoicing of the Heart) featuring the colophon. The text is written in a medium-small to medium-large nasta‘liq script. The text area has been frame-ruled. Black ink with headings in red and red overlinings. The paper is yellow-brown and brittle; only very wavy and broad horizontal laid lines are visible. The paper is very wormeaten and waterstained, especially at the top.

MS P 13, fol. 315a

Folio 10a from MS P 20 features the first page of text from Muḥammad Arzānī's Ṭibb al-Akbar (Akbar's Medicine). The thin, glossy, biscuit paper has only indistinct wavy laid lines visible. The text is written in a medium-small ta‘liq using dense black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.

MS P 20, fol. 10a

Folio 99a from MS P 25 which begins an anonymous Persian poem Kitab Qānūnchah-i manzum (The 'Qānūnchah' in Verse) written in two columns. A prose treatise on medicaments is written in the margins. The thick, opaque, slightly-glossy yellow-brown paper has only indistinct laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small careful, professional ta‘liq tending toward naskh script using black ink with headings in red.

MS P 25, fol. 99a

Folios 1b and 2a from beginning of Nafīs ibn ‘Iwāḍ al-Kirmānī's Sharḥ al-Mūjiz (Commentary on the Mūjiz). The semi-glossy paper is of beige color and has wavy horizontal laid lines and chain lines. The text is written in a medium-small, compact nasta‘liq script. The text area has been frame-ruled. Dense black ink, with headings in red and red overlinings.

MS A 63, fols. 1b-2a

The lower half of folio 29a from Muḥammad Arzānī's Mufarriḥ al-qulūb (The Rejoicing of the Heart) showing cranial sutures in the middle of the text. The text is written in a medium-small to medium-large nasta‘liq script written in black ink. The paper is yellow-brown and brittle; only very wavy and broad horizontal laid lines are visible.

MS P 13, fol. 29a

The middle half of folio 263a from Muḥammad Arzānī's Mufarriḥ al-qulūb (The Rejoicing of the Heart) showing eye and optic nerve in the middle of the text. The text is written in a medium-small to medium-large nasta‘liq script written in black ink. The paper is yellow-brown and brittle; only very wavy and broad horizontal laid lines are visible.

MS P 13, fol. 263a

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