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Folio 41b of MS A 27 which features the opening of the second section of an unidentifed treatise on prognostics, with extensive marginal quotations from the commentary by Ibn al-Nafīs on the Hippocratic treatise on prognostics. The burnished, glossy beige paper has lightly scattered fibers, vertical slightly curved laid lines, and faint single chain lines. The central text is written in a medium-small, compact, elegant and professional naskh script. Black ink with headings in red and red overlinings. There are notes in the the top and right margins.

MS A 27, fol. 41b

Folio 209a of Galen's Kitāb fī manāfi ‘al-a‘ḍa' (On the Usefulness of the Parts) featuring the end of the fourteenth book, followed by a quotation from a summary (jawami‘) of Galen's treatise attributed to one Yaḥyá al-Naḥwī (John the Grammarian, or, John Philoponus). The glossy beige paper has vertical curved laid lines. The text is written in a small, careful, elegant, and professional naskh. The text area has been frame-ruled. Black ink with headings in red.

MS A 30.1, fol. 209a

Folio 60b of MS A 34 which begins the poem Urjūzah laṭīfah fī Qaḍāyā Ibqarāṭ al‑khamsah wa‑al‑‘ishrūn (An Elegant Poem on the Twenty-five Premises of Hippocrates) based on a treatise falsely attributed to Hippocrates. The cream, semi-glossy paper has laid lines, single chain lines, and is watermarked; it is worm-eaten (some repairs), and the edges have been trimmed from their original size. The text is written in a medium-small naskh, inelegant and awkward but consistent, with some ligatures. The heading is in red with some vocalization and ends of lines are indicated in red dots.

MS A 34, fol. 60b

Folio 67a of Ibn al-Nafīs's Sharḥ Kitāb Ṭabi‘at al-insān li-Buqrāṭ (A Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise On the Nature of Man) featuring the colophon, where it is stated that the copy was made by the physician Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan from an autograph copy in the hand of the author, Ibn al-Nafīs. The lightly glossed paper has been dyed a pink-brown and has vertical laid lines and chain lines. The text is written in a medium large naskh script without full diacritical dots but with some vocalization. Black ink with headings in red.

MS A 69, fol. 67a

Folio 67b of Ibn al-Nafīs's Sharḥ Kitāb Ṭabi‘at al-insān li-Buqrāṭ (A Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise On the Nature of Man) featuring the certification in the handwriting of Ibn al-Nafīs that a student successfully read and demonstrated his proficiency with the text. The lightly glossed paper has been dyed a pink-brown and has vertical laid lines and chain lines. The text is written in a medium large naskh script without full diacritical dots but with some vocalization. Black ink with headings in red.

MS A 69, fol. 67b

Folio 1a of Kitāb Taqāsīm al-insānīyah fī al-ṣūrah al-basharīyah (The Classification of People in Terms of the Bodily Forms) attributed to Galen. The title page, having an owner's note written in 1820-1 (1236 H.) by Mustafa Behcet, the Chief of Physicians in Istanbul and the translator into Turkish of the Canon on Medicine by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). There is also a circular owner's stamp, two defaced owners' signatures, with a fourth owner's inscription in the lower left corner dated 1213 H (1798-9 AD) and signed Muṣṭafá Mas‘ūd the physician. The lightly-glossed yellow-beige paper has chain lines. The text is written in a medium-small, careful, consistent, naskh script with occasional vocalization.

MS A 74, fol. 1a

Folio 1b of Kitāb Taqāsīm al-insānīyah fī al-ṣūrah al-basharīyah (The Classification of People in Terms of the Bodily Forms) attributed to Galen, which begins the text. The lightly-glossed yellow-beige paper has chain lines. The text is written in a medium-small, careful, consistent, naskh script with occasional vocalization.

MS A 74, fol. 1b

Folio 39b of MS A 84 which begins Kitāb al-Buthūr (The Book of Pustules) spuriously attributed to Hippocrates, on pustules and the signs of impending death. The note added in the margin states that this treatise was found in the tomb of Hippocrates. The beige lightly-glossed paper has single chain lines and watermarks. The paper is waterstained, and the edges have been trimmed from their orignal size. The text is written in a small compact naskh, with some ligatures. Black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.

MS A 84, fol. 39b

Folio 41 from MS A 84 which begins the summary of a treatise Jawāmi‘ Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-bawl wa-dalā’ilihi (A Summary of the Book of Galen on urine and its diagnostic signs) based on the writings of Galen. The beige lightly-glossed paper has single chain lines and watermarks, and is waterstained. The text is written in a small compact naskh script, with some ligatures. Black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.

MS A 84, fol. 41a

Folio 62b of MS P 26 which begins an Arabic translation of Galen's Maqalat fi al-‘izam lil-muta‘allimin (Treatise on Bones for Beginners). The very glossy beige paper has occasional thin patches and indistinct wavy horizontal laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small, careful and professional naskh with some ta‘liq characteristics.

MS P 26, fol. 62b

Folio 88b of MS P 26 which features the beginning of an Arabic translation of Galen's Maqālat fī tashrīḥ al-‘aḍal (Treatise on the Anatomy of Muscles). The very glossy beige paper has occasional thin patches and indistinct wavy horizontal laid lines. The text is written in a medium-small, careful and professional naskh with some ta‘liq characteristics.

MS P 26, fol. 88b

The binding of MS A 69, Ibn al-Nafīs's Sharḥ Kitāb Ṭabi‘at al-insān li-Buqrāṭ (A Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise On the Nature of Man), is brown leather over pasteboards, with the covers and envelope flap decorated with gilt-tooled central medallions and gilt borders. There are doublures of block-pressed leather.

MS A 69, doublures

Folio 1a of Ibn al-Nafīs's Sharḥ Kitāb Ṭabi‘at al-insān li-Buqrāṭ (A Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise On the Nature of Man) featuring the title page, with a talismanic inscription at the top. The lightly glossed paper has been dyed a pink-brown and has vertical laid lines and chain lines. The text is written in a medium large naskh script without full diacritical dots but with some vocalization. Black ink with headings in red.

MS A 69, fol. 1a

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