MS. Huntington 427 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

It is undated and unsigned. The appearance of paper, ink, and script suggests a product of the eighth/fourteenth century.

The copy lacks the beginning of the treatise. There is a break in the text between folios 17 and 18, which a later reader has attempted to fill by copying into the margins of folio 17b a passage from a different commentary on the Aphorisms, the commentary by al-Sīwāsī which occupies the ninth item in this volume (see entry for ʿUmdah). The second maqālah begins on folio 11b, the third on 18b8, the fourth on 23b, the fifth on 31b10, the sixth on 39b, and the seventh on 46b.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 14.8 × 11.4) cm; 19 lines per page. The author is not named, but a comparison with Hebrew copies confirms its identification. The title is given in several places, including folios 23b2, 31b11, and 39a15.

The text area has been frame-ruled. The text is written in an elegant, professional, medium-small Naskh with considerable vocalization. The letter ʿayn always has a minuscule letter under it, while ḥāʾ often has one; the letter sīn sometimes has a háček over it. It is written in brown ink fading to a lighter shade; headings in brown ink. There are a few catchwords added in a later hand.

The text has been collated by the copyist against the author’s original (folio 51a فرغ نسخا ومقابله من اصل المصنف فصح, see also folios 23a and 39a). There are also later marginal corrections and marginalia in at least two hands, some of them extensive. On folios 16b to 18a there are extracts from a commentary on the Aphorisms specified as the ʿUmdah, written in the same hand as copied the fragmentary commentary forming item 9 of this volume, which is a commentary by ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Mūsá al-Sīwāsī (see entry for ʿUmdah ).

SHU §48 (6) SALJ 158. D. 19, p. 215

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The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a copy of the eighth/fourteenth century.

It is an incomplete copy of the treatise, breaking off in the midst of the fourth bāb.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 15.4 × c.11.0) cm; 19 lines per page. The author is given as Mūsá ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Isrāʾīlī al-Qurṭubī at the beginning of the treatise. The title and author are given in a later hand at the top of folio 51a (مقالة موسي بن عبيد الله الاسراييلي القرطبى فى البواسير) and in the table of contents for the volume at the top of folio 1a.

It is not clear if the text area has been frame-ruled. It is written in a medium-small, consistent Naskh, with some vocalization added later, in dark-brown ink with extensive ‘shadowing’; the ink has had a corrosive effect upon the paper. The letter ḥāʾ has a minuscule letter under it, and the sīn has a háček over it. It was transcribed by a different copyist than copied the first item in the volume (see entry for Sharḥ Fuṣūl Ibqurāṭ).

There are small repairs on all four folios comprising this item; folio 54 has a large unrepaired hole in the text area; folio 52 is ‘netted’.

There are marginalia in several hands.

SALJ 158 D. 14 P. 213 SHU §481 (1)

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The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a copy of the eighth/fourteenth century. It appears to have been transcribed by the same copyist (Abū al-Ḥasan al-Rifʿah al-kātib) who transcribed items 4 and 5 in the volume (see entries for Maqālah fī tadbīr al-ṣiḥḥah and Maqālah fī bayān baʿḍ al-aʿrāḍ wa-al-jawāb ʿanhā ).

It is a fragment, presenting the conclusion of the treatise. The text equals that given on pp. 22814 to 2307 of the Kroner edition.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 14.8 × 11.2) cm; 19 lines per page. The title is given in a later table of contents at the top of folio 1a. The text area has been frame-ruled. It is written in a medium-small, careful, consistent Naskh, with some vocalization. The ink is dark-brown to black. The letters ḥāʾ and ʿayn have minuscule letters underneath, the letter sīn has an occasional háček, and the medial kāf is missing the top stroke.

The text has been collated by the copyist against the author’s original (folio 61b: فرغ نسخا ومقابله من نسخه المصنف فصح ). There are some marginal corrections.

SALJ 158 D. 15, p. 213 SHU §481 (2)

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The copy is undated and unsigned; the appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a copy of the eighth/fourteenth century. The copy appears to have been transcribed by the same copyist, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Rifʿah [or al-Rafʿah] al-kātib, who copied items 3 and 5 in the volume; (see entries for Risālah fī al-jimāʻ and Maqālah fī bayān baʿḍ al-aʿrāḍ wa-al-jawāb ʿanhā , which are also undated).

A complete copy.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 14.8 × 11.2) cm; 19 lines per page. The title is given as Tadbīr yuʿtamadu ʿalayhi fī shifāʾ amrāḍ ḥadathat li-mawlānā on folio 62a3−4. A later hand has given the title at the top of folio 62a as Maqālah fī ḥabs al-ṭabīʿah (a treatise on constipation) and this is repeated in the table of contents at the top of folio 1a. The author is named at the beginning of the treatise.

The text area has been frame-ruled. It is written in a medium-small, careful, consistent Naskh, with some vocalization, in dark-brown to black ink. The headings are in black ink. The letter ḥāʾ usually has a minuscule letter underneath and the letter ʿayn occasionally does, while the medial kāf, and sometimes the initial form, is missing the top stroke.

There are marginal corrections.

SHU §482 (7) SALJ 158. D. 20, p. 216

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The undated copy was made by the copyist Abū al-Ḥasan al-Rifʿah [or al-Rafʿah] al-kātib. He appears to have also copied the two previous items in the volume (see entries for Risālah fī al-jimāʻ and Maqālah [or Risālah] fī tadbīr al-ṣiḥḥah). The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a copy of the eighth/fourteenth century.

A complete copy.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 14.8 × 11.2) cm; 19 lines per page. The title is not given in the text itself; at the top of folio 80b a later hand has written مقاله فى بيان بعض الاعراض والجواب عنها, and at the top of folio 1a, in the table of contents, a later hand has written وله رساله فى بيان بعض الاعراض وجوابها. The author is not named in the text.

The text area has been frame-ruled. It is written in a medium-small, careful, consistent Naskh, with some vocalization, in dark-brown to black ink. The headings are in black ink. The letter ʿayn occasionally has a minuscule letter underneath, and the medial kāf is occasionally missing the top stroke.

The copy was collated by the copyist against the author’s original, according to a note at end of the colophon on folio 91b16 (فرغ نسخا ومقابلهً من اصل المصنف فصح). There are marginal corrections. A recipe of two lines is written by a later hand at the bottom of folio 80b.

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It is undated and unsigned. The appearance of paper, ink, and script suggests a product of the eighth/fourteenth century. The copyist appears to have also copied the first item in the volume (see entry for Sharḥ Fuṣūl Ibqurāṭ).

It is a complete copy.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 14.8 × 11.2) cm; 19 lines per page. The title is given as al-Maqālah al-Fāḍilīyah on folio 93b6-7 (وسميتها المقالة الفاضلية). On folio 93a18−19 it is referred to as مقاله صغيره الحجم وجيزه اللفظ في ما يبادر به المسلوع من التدبير. Folio 92a is blank except for a note giving the title as مقاله صغيرة الحجم فى ما يبادر به الملسوع من تدبير, while the later hand that added the table of contents on folio 1a gives the title as مقاله فى ما يبادر به الملسوع من التدبير.

The overlinings were added later. The folios are paginated in Coptic numerals.

There are some marginal corrections, some by the copyist and some by a later reader who also added the note at the bottom of folio 106b stating that it was collated against the original copy of the author (قوبلت على نسخه المصنف الاصل ).

SALJ 158. D. 16 p. 214

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The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a copy of the late tenth/sixteenth or eleventh/seventeenth century.

It is a complete copy.

The MS. has as author simply "Dāʼūd al-ḥakīm"

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 14.9 × 6.7) cm; 19 lines per page. The title and author are given at the end of the copy. Ibn Riḍwān and Ibn Tilmīdh are cited on folio 110a10. The text area has been frame-ruled. It is written in a medium-small, careful, consistent Nastaʿlīq, with only occasional vocalization, in black ink with headings in red. There are catchwords. The item was written by a different copyist and on different paper than that used elsewhere in the volume.

The smooth, glossy, ivory paper has a thickness of 0.10−0.11 mm and an opaqueness factor 7 to 8. It has vertical straight laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks (a crown; flowerhead with letters VC).

There are two marginal corrections, possibly by the copyist.

SALJ §154 (3), p. 196

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The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggests a copy of the eleventh/seventeenth century.

It is a complete copy.

Dimensions 20.9 × 15.3 (text area 16.4 × 11.4) cm; 23 lines per page. The author is given at the beginning and again on folio 121a8−9. Galen is cited on folios 125a–126a and 129b, Aristotle on folio 123a, and Hippocrates on folio 128b. The text area has been frame-ruled. The text is written in a medium-large script having the overall appearance of a Maghribī script, but the placement of diacritical dots is that of an ordinary Naskh. It is written in black ink with headings in red. There are catchwords.

The smooth, glossy, ivory paper has a thickness of 0.11−0.13 mm and an opaqueness factor of 7. There are slightly curved, vertical, laid lines and single chain lines, with no visible watermarks. The paper is soiled through thumbing.

There are later marginal corrections.

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The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, script, and ink suggest that it is a copy of the eleventh/seventeenth century.

Dimensions 17.1 x 12.7 (text area 16 x 12) cm; 21–22 lines per page. The title ʿUmdah is given at the end of the marginalia on folio 17a–b. No author is given.

The text is written in a medium-small casual and inelegant Naskh, with many ligatures and with a number of diacritical dots missing.

The paper of folios 133−4 is different from and smaller than all the other items in the volume. It is ivory in hue and has a thickness of 0.12−0.14 mm. There are vertical laid lines, faint single chain lines, but no watermarks.

There are no marginalia.

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