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Folio 1b from Ishaq ibn Hunayn's al-Risālah al-Shāfiyah fi adwiyat al-nisyān. The opaque biscuit paper has the text written in a compact naskh script in brown-black ink.
MS A 3/II, fol. 1b
Folio 1b from Mīrzā ‘Alī's Asrār al-‘ilāj. The cream, semi-glossy paper is fibrous and has sagging vertical laid lines but no chain lines. The paper is slightly wormeaten. The text is written in a medium-small personal ta‘liq script with black ink. Headings are in red and there are red overlinings. The text area is frame-ruled.
MS A 5, fol. 1b
Folio 2a from Mīrzā ‘Alī's Asrār al-‘ilāj. The cream, semi-glossy paper is fibrous and has sagging vertical laid lines but no chain lines. The paper is slightly wormeaten. The text is written in a medium-small personal ta‘liq script with black ink. Headings are in red and there are red overlinings. The text area is frame-ruled.
MS A 5, fol. 2a
Folio 1b from Muḥammad ibn Thālib al-Shīrāzī's Fawā’id al-ḥasanīyah fī al-mujarrabāt al-ṭibbīyah (Useful Information for al-Hasan on Tested Medical Remedies). The text is written in script in black ink with headings in red within green frames.
MS A 10, fol. 1b

Folio 303a from Muḥammad ibn Thālib al-Shīrāzī's Fawā’id al-ḥasanīyah fī al-mujarrabāt al-ṭibbīyah (Useful Information for al-Hasan on Tested Medical Remedies) which features the colophon. The text is written in script in black ink and there is a margin note in the left margin.
MS A 10, fol. 303a
Folio 6a from an anonymous treatise on fevers titled Kitāb Ghayhāt al-umniyāt fī ma‘rifat al-ḥummayāt (The Most That Could be Desired Concerning the Knowledge of Fevers). The cream, semi-glossy paper is think, with visible laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The folio features a chart drawn in red and black inks with the text written in a medium-small naskh script, with some vocalization, in brown-black ink with headings in red. The text area has been frame-ruled.
MS A 15, fol. 6a
Folio 1b from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Salāwī's Khālitah fī sinā’at al-tibb. The glossy creamy-beige paper has vertical laid lines and single chain lines and is watermarked. There is considerable damage to the paper from damp; it is also worm-eaten. The text is written in a small to medium-small, careful North African (Maghribi) script. It is written in black ink with headings in red. In the right margin is a short anonymous treatise on toothache written in a later hand in red ink.
MS A 31, fol. 1b
Folio 54b featuring the colophon from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Salāwī's Khālitah fī sinā’at al-tibb. The glossy creamy-beige paper has vertical laid lines and single chain lines and is watermarked. There is considerable damage to the paper from damp; it is also worm-eaten. The text is written using black ink in a small to medium-small, careful North African (Maghribi) script. At the bottom of folio are miscellaneous notes written in black ink.
MS A 31, fol. 54b

Folio 5b from al-Sha‘rānī's Mukhtaṣar Tadhkirat al-Suwaydī. The text is written in medium-small naskh script. It is written in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings. There are marginalia in the right margin.
MS A 45, fol. 2b
Folio 3a from al-Sha‘rānī's Mukhtaṣar Tadhkirat al-Suwaydī. The text is written in medium-small naskh script. It is written in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings. There are marginalia on the top and left margins.
MS A 45, fol. 3a
Folio 132a from al-Sha‘rānī's Mukhtaṣar Tadhkirat al-Suwaydī featuring the colophon. The text is written in medium-small naskh script. It is written in black ink. There are marginalia in the left margin. On this folio there is also an extensive collation note.
MS A 45, fol. 132a
Folio 1a of al-Sha‘rānī's Kitāb Mukhtaṣar al-Tadhkirah. This the opening folio with the title given in red on the first line. The text is written in a medium-large, somewhat awkward, Maghribi script in black ink with headings in red and green. There are red and green overlinings and occasional green-dot text stops. The thin, ivory paper has horizontal thin laid lines and vertical single chain lines and has worm holes. The edges have been trimmed from their original size.
MS A 45.1, fol. 1a

Folio 2b of Avicenna's Kitāb al-Qawlanj. The beige paper is fairly thick and semi-glossy, with indistinct vertical laid lines and irregularly spaced single chain lines visible. The text is written in a careful and decorative calligrapher's hand within frames of blue and gilt lines.
MS A 55, fol. 2b
Folio 3a of Avicenna's Kitāb al-Qawlanj. The beige paper is fairly thick and semi-glossy, with indistinct vertical laid lines and irregularly spaced single chain lines visible. The text is written in a careful and decorative calligrapher's hand within frames of blue and gilt lines.
MS A 55, fol. 3a
Folio 1b from Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandi's Risālah fī al-mafāsil. The paper is a soft beige color and the text area is frame-ruled. The text is written in a small naskh script tending to ta‘liq in black with with copious maroon/red overlinings.
MS A 80.1, fol. 1b
Folio 44b of MS A 84 which features the opening of al-Rāzi's Būr’ al-sā‘ah (Cure in an Hour). The beige lightly-glossed paper has single chain lines and watermarks. The text is written in a small compact naskh, with some ligatures, using black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.
MS A 84, fol. 44ba

Folio 1b from Maimonides' Risalah fi al-basawir. The cream, matte-finished paper is thick and opaque, with no visible laid lines or chain lines, although the paper is watermarked. The text is written in black ink with headings in red and blue-green and is set within frames of red and blue-green lines.
MS A 90, fol. 1b
Page 1 of Ibn al-Kattānī's Mu’ālajat al-amrād al-khatirah al-bādīyah ’alā al-badan min khārij. The page is a thick, glossy, light-beige 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.
MS A 91, p. 1
Page 46 from MS A 91 which is the opening of an untitled therapeutic manual on remedies and medical experiences written by Muḥammad ibn Khamrah. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script, with black ink and headings in red. There are catchwords. The paper is a thick, glossy, light-beige (darkened near the edges) paper with laid lines, single chain lines.
MS A 91, p. 46
Page 78 of Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Qawsūnī's Zād al-masīr fī ‘ilāj al-bawāsīr. The cream paper has laid lines and single chain lines. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script using grey ink with headings in red.
MS A 92, p. 78

Folio 208b of Sulṭān ‘Alī Khurāsānī's Dastūr al-‘ilājj featuring the colophon. The beige paper is somewhat burnished. It has visible laid lines and single chain lines and is watermarked. The paper is waterdamaged at the top.
MS P 6, fol. 208b
Folio 75b of Sulṭān ‘Alī Khurāsānī's Dastūr al-‘ilāj. The lightly-glossed gray-green paper that is watermarked. The text is written in a small nasta‘liq script. The text area is frame-ruled. Black ink with maroon headings and overlinings.
MS P 7, fol. 75b
Folio 76a of Sulṭān ‘Alī Khurāsānī's Dastūr al-‘ilāj. The lightly-glossed gray-green paper that is watermarked. The text is written in a small nasta‘liq script. The text area is frame-ruled. Black ink with maroon headings and overlinings.
MS P 7, fol. 76a

Folios 2b and 3a from Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ṭabīb al-Iṣfahānī's al-Dastūr al-Jalālī. The glossy ivory paper has horizontal laid lines, single chain lines, and is watermarked (with a shield). The paper is slightly waterdamaged. The text is written in a medium-large naskh script in black ink with headings in red. The text are has been frame-ruled.
MS A 9, fols. 2b-3a
Folios 4b and 5a from Būlus ibn Qustantīn al-Malakī al-Shābūrī's Natījat al-matlūbāt fī ma’rifat al-hummayāt. The ivory, semi-glossy paper has horizontal laid lines, single chain lines, and is watermarked. The paper is slightly yellowed near the edges and slightly water damaged. The text is written in a medium-small, widely spaced naskh script, in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings. The text area is frame-ruled. There are catchwords.
MS A 49, fols. 4b-5a

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