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Folio 19b of Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanawbarī's Kitāb al-Raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah (The Book of Mercy Concerned with Medicine and Wisdom) featuring the colophon. The green-grey paper is has laid lines and single chain lines, with visible watermarks. The text is written in a very casual and ill-formed small naskh, using black in and headings in red. There are notes writting the right and bottom margins.

MS A 29, fol. 19b

Folio 1b from Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Dhahabī's Kitāb al-Ṭibb al-nabawī (Prophetic Medicine). The biscuit paper has almost a matte finish, with fine vertical laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a somewhat stiff, medium-small, widely-spaced naskh script, using black ink with headings in red and some red highlighting.

MS A 32, fol. 1b

Folio 88a from Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Dhahabī's Kitāb al-Ṭibb al-nabawī (Prophetic Medicine) featuring the colophon. The biscuit paper has almost a matte finish, with fine vertical laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a somewhat stiff, medium-small, widely-spaced naskh script, using black ink with headings in red and some red highlighting.

MS A 32, fol. 88a

Folio 27a of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī's Kitāb al-Maṣābīḥ al-sanīyah fī ṭibb al-barīyah (Brilliant Illuminations concerning Prophetic Medicine). It is the final folio of the treatise featuring the colophon. The paper is green-gray watermarked paper with laid lines and single chain lines visible. It is waterstained and soiled. The text is written in a very casual and ill-formed, small naskh, using black ink.

MS A 38, fol. 27a

Folio 1b from Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's al-Manhaj al-sawī wa-al-manhal al-rawī fī al-ṭibb al-nabawī (An Easy Manual and Refreshing Source for the Medicine of the Prophet). The folio features an illuminated headpiece in gold and opaque watercolors. The paper is a light-brown, semi-glossy, fibrous paper, with vertical laid lines but with scarcely any visible chain lines. The text is written in a professional, elegant, medium-small naskh, using black ink within frames of gold and blue and black ink. Blue ink has been used for headings and emphasized words.

MS A 41, fol. 1b

The binding of the cover of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's al-Manhaj al-sawī wa-al-manhal al-rawī fī al-ṭibb al-nabawī (An Easy Manual and Refreshing Source for the Medicine of the Prophet). The binding of this manuscript has been reconstructed using the covers from a Persian/Turkish binding of the 16th or 17th century. The upper cover has a delicate guilloche roll border overpainted in gold with an inside single gold fillet. At the center of the cover is a deeply impressed panel stamp having a shallow scalloped ovoid outline. The field of the panel stamp has the a gold-painted background with a relief pattern of undulating cloud-ribbon forms intertwined with fine vine work. The vine is studded with large and small carnation flowers and buds. The scalloped outline of the panel stamp is emphasized by a gold-painted line and radiating gold flecks.

MS A 41, binding

Folio 1b from Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Walī ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥusayn al-Ḥanafī's Nukat wa-asrār kafīyah fī al-ṭibb (Aphorisms and Secrets Sufficient for Medicine). The dark ivory, lightly glossed paper has vertical laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a small, awkward naskh, using dark-brown ink with some headings in red.

MS A 50, fol. 1b

Folio 9b, the final folio from Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Walī ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥusayn al-Ḥanafī's Nukat wa-asrār kafīyah fī al-ṭibb (Aphorisms and Secrets Sufficient for Medicine). The dark ivory, lightly glossed paper has vertical laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a small, awkward naskh, using dark-brown ink with some headings in red.

MS A 50, fol. 9b

Folio 102b from Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Dhahabī's al-ṭibb al-nabawī (Prophetic Medicine) featuring the colophon on the bottom two lines. The biscuit paper has a matte-finish. The text is written in a careful, medium-small, widely-spaced naskh script using dark-brown ink with headings in red and red highlighting.

MS A 79, fol. 102b

Folio 1b from al-Tāfilātī's Tahdhīb al-maqāmah fī-mā warada fī al-faṣd wa-al-ḥijāmah (The Instruction to the Congregation on What has Been Said Concerning Venesection and Cupping) The thin, gray-cream paper has only laid lines visible. The text is written in small, personal and inconsistent naskh with ligatures, using black ink with headings in purplish-red.

MS A 88/III, fol. 1b

Folio 1b from Abū al-Qāsim al-ḥabīb al-Naysābūrī's Fi manāfi‘ al-aṭ‘imah bi-l-aḥādīth (On the Use of Foodstuffs in the Prophetic Tradition). The thin, ivory paper has indistinct laid lines and very fine single chain lines. The text is written in a medium-small compact naskh script with nasta‘liq characteristics and ligatures. It is written black ink with orange-red headings.

MS A 88/IV, fol. 1b

Page 110 of MS A 91 which features the beginning page of a treatise on prophetic by Ibn al-Mīlaq. The paper is a thick, glossy, light-beige, darkened near the edges, paper with laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script, with black ink and headings in red. It is a fluid script with a number of ligatures.

MS A 91, p. 110

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