MS. Thurston 10 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

The copy is undated and unsigned. It bears an owner’s note dated 761/ Gregorian 1359. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggest a dating of the seventh/thirteenth to eighth/fourteenth century.

It is a complete copy. The first maqālah begins on folio 2a, the second on 17b, the third on 34b, the fourth on 46a, the fifth on 67b, the sixth on 86a, and the seventh on 105b.

Dimensions 25.7 × 18.5 (text area 16.0 × 12.0) cm; 17−18 lines per page. The title is given on the title page (folio 1a) as كتاب فيه شرح فصول ابقراط; a later hand has repeated the title at the top of the page. The author’s name is given in full on both the title page and at the beginning of the treatise. The title is written as شرح الفصول on the top edge of the volume, with the author written as لابن ابى صادق on the bottom edge. The text area is frame-ruled. The text is written in a medium-small, careful, and consistent Naskh with considerable vocalization. The letter sīn and occasionally rāʾ has a small háček on it; a minuscule letter occurs underneath the letter ḥāʾ but only very occasionally under an ʿayn. The letter kāf often, but not always, is missing the top stroke; a hamzah is occasionally written over an initial alif. The text is written in dark brown ink, with headings and overlinings in red; text-stops are red dots enclosed in brown circles. There are no catchwords.

The text has been collated (collation note on folio 17b), and there are scribal corrections and later marginalia. Folios are labelled in the upper left corner with small abjad letter-numerals in black ink. A different hand has numbered the pages with standard Arabic numerals. On folio 89a there is a Karshūnī note providing the subject heading: al-ṣudāʿ (headache).

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This undated and unsigned copy is by the same copyist who prepared the first item in the volume (see Sharḥ Fuṣūl Ibqurāṭ ). The volume bears an owner’s note dated 761/1359. The appearance of the paper, ink, and script suggest a dating of the late seventh/thirteenth century.

The copy contains all three maqālahs, the first beginning on folio 119b, second on folio 133a and the third on folio 156a.

Dimensions 25.2 × 18.5 (text area 16.0 × 11.6) cm; 17−18 lines per page. The title is given on the title page (folio 119a) as كتاب فيه شرح تقدمة المعرفة. The author is given on folio 119b4 as Muhadhdhab al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān [sic] ibn ʿAlī, while on the title page Ibn al-Dakhwār is added to the name. The compiler, Badr al-Dīn Muẓaffar ibn Qāḍī Baʿlabakk al-ṭabīb, is named on folio 119b3 and the person for whom it was recorded is given at folio 119b14–15 as Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muslim al-ṭabīb.

The text area has been frame-ruled. The text is written in a medium-small, careful, and consistent Naskh with considerable vocalization. The letter sīn, and occasionally rāʾ , has a small háček on it; a minuscule letter occurs under the letter ḥāʾ but only very occasionally under an ʿayn. The letter kāf often, but not always, is missing the top stroke. It is written in dark brown ink with headings and overlinings in red; text-stops are small red dots, sometimes single, sometimes in groups of 3s, and sometimes enclosed in brown circles. There are no catchwords.

There are scribal corrections and later marginalia and marginal headings. Folio 118b has a table of contents for the treatise, apparently added by the writer of a note occurring on folio 119a transferring ownership to an unnamed bishop (usquf) of the three sees (karāsīy) of Amid, Mārdīn, and Tyre in the Alexandrian year of 1898 (1586): انتقل بالابتياع الشرعى ودخل خزانه كتب فقير الاساقفه بمبلغ ثلث اشرفيه خادم الثلث كراسى آمد وماردين والصور ((الطور)) وذلك بحدود سنه ١٨٩٨ يونانيه

It appears that this same writer was responsible for the repetition on the title page (folio 119a) of the name of the compiler of the treatise and the person for whom it was recorded. Karshūnī notes providing subject headings occur on folios 133a (fī al-istisqāʾ, on dropsy), 164a (fī al-buḥrānāt, on crises), and 165a (al-ruʿāf al-radī, a severe nosebleed).

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An abridgement and reordering of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates according to topic. The copy in the Bodleian Library has only one folio, and it presents a detailed table of contents for the treatise with the heading Fihrist abwāb kitāb Ibqurāṭ (فهرست ابواب كتاب ابقراط). The author is given as Abū al- Ḥasan Ṭāhir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sinjarī. The treatise itself is missing from the volume.

This table of contents appears to have been written by the writer of two notes dated 995/1586−7 transferring ownership of the volume to an unnamed bishop (usquf) of the three sees (thalāth karāsīy) of Amid, Mārdīn and Tyre (folios 1a and 119a). The same person also prepared the table of contents for two other Hippocratic commentaries that are preserved in the manuscript.

Dimensions 25.2 × 17.8 (text area 19 × 14 cm); 15 lines per page. The author is given as Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭāhir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sinjarī at the beginning of the fihrist. The title of the treatise Fihrist abwāb Kitāb Ibqurāṭ is given as a heading.

The text is written in a medium-small Naskh with considerable vocalization and some ligatures; the final nūn has a small right-hand spur and there is a left-hand tick on the alifs; the letter sīn has a háček over it. The text is written in black ink with red-brown headings.

At the bottom of folio 168b a small square of paper with Turkish notes has been pasted onto the folio.

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