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Folio 8b from Ibn al-Nafīs's Kitāb al-Mūjiz (The Concise Book) featuring a diagram for diagnosis by pulse at the top of the folio. The highly-glossed, brown, thin paper has wavy vertical laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small, elegant, professional naskh script. The text area is frame-ruled. Black ink with headings in red; there are also black overlinings highlighted with red.
MS A 43, fol. 8b
Folio 50a from Ibn al-Nafīs's Kitāb al-Mūjiz (The Concise Book) featuring a diagram of the eye and visual system. The highly-glossed, brown, thin paper has wavy vertical laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small, elegant, professional naskh script. The text area is frame-ruled. Black ink with headings in red; there are also black overlinings highlighted with red.
MS A 43, fol. 50a
Folio 192a from Ibn al-Nafīs's Kitāb al-Mūjiz (The Concise Book) featuring the colophon. The brown, glossy paper is waterdamaged. The text is written in a small, careful, compact ta‘liq script tending toward naskh. The text area has been frame-ruled. Black ink with red overlinings.
MS A 44, fol. 192b
Folio 1b from from Ibn al-Nafīs's Kitāb al-Mūjiz (The Concise Book) featuring an illuminated opening. The first nine lines of text are drawn in cloud-bands with gilt between the bands, and the text as a whole is set within a border of gilt, brown and blue frames. In the margins there is a commentary on the proper way to spell the author's name. The gray-brown, highly glossed paper has wavy vertical (sometimes horizontal) fine laid lines. The text is written in medium-large ta‘liq tending toward naskh script. Dense black ink with some headings in red, with a few red overlinings.
MS A 44.1, fol. 1b

Folio 77a from Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Īlāqī's Kitāb al-Fuṣūl al-Īlāqīyah (The Aphorisms of Īlāqī) featuring the colophon. The ivory, lightly-glossed thin paper has fine laid lines, and is watermarked. The text is written in a small, careful naskh script of Turkish style. The text area has been frame-ruled. Black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.
MS A 83/II, fol. 77a
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