MS. Bodl. Or. 231 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

The copy was completed on 19 Kānūn al-awwal 1611 of the Alexandrian/Seleucid era (19 Dec. 1300) by Khalīl ibn Saʿīd al-Qārī. It should be noted, however, that both the first folio and the final folio (with the colophon) are restorations, apparently carefully copying the original folios. The paper, ink, and script of the core of the manuscript (folios 2–126) are consistent with a date of production of about 700/1300. The manuscript is probably of Egyptian provenance.

It is a complete copy, with the first maqālah beginning on folio 2b, the second on folio 35b, and the third on folio 94b.

Dimensions 15.0 × 10.5 (text area 11.2 × 7.6) cm; 13−18 lines per page. The title occurs at the beginning and the end of the treatise as well as on the title page (folio 1a), where it is written within two concentric red circles as كتاب شرح تقدمة المعرفة لبقراط فى امور الطب. The author’s name occurs as Muhadhdhab al-Dīn on folio 1b6 and as Muhadhdhab al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAlī al-ṭabīb on folio 35b6–8. The compiler is given on folio 1b4–5 as Badr al-Dīn Muẓaffar ibn Qāḍī Baʿlabakk al-ṭabīb, with the patron’s name given on folio 2b2–3 as Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ((ʿAbd al-Raḥīm)) ibn Muslim al-ṭabīb, with the marginal correction of ʿAbd al-Raḥīm.

The text area has been frame-ruled. It is written in a medium-small, careful, and consistent Naskh, with occasional vocalization in dense dark brown ink with headings in red. Occasionally the letter ḥāʾ has a minuscule letter underneath. There are no catchwords. The hand of the replacement folios is different, with the lettter sīn carrying a háček. There are seventeen numbered quires, with the first quire consisting of four folios, the last of two folios, and the intervening quires of eight folios. The final folio of each quire is also numbered.

On folio 16a there is evidence of marginalia, written vertically, having been cut off, and the patron’s name given in folio 2b has been corrected.

SAUG §7m, p. 124 (306) [second MS. only]

*ff. 1 and 127 are a later insertion and so the date is suspect.

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*ff. 128v-129v blank

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Containing the heading "al-bāb al-ʻāshir min Kitāb Dafʻ al-hamm"

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