Nīlī, Abū Sahl Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 964 - 1029

The volume contains 131 leaves. Folio 30b has an eleven-line Turkish note, carefully written, on the treatment of haemorrhoids (بواسير). Folio 31a has twenty lines of Arabic in a large later hand concerned with the meaning of terms used in describing temperaments and humours. Folio 131a has advice (من وصايا) on food (طعام) taken from Ibn Sīnā, written in a large and later hand. Folio 131b has four recipes for theriacs (in different hands), one of them specified as ترياق برشعيثا (the tiryāq of Barashʿīthā) and another as ترياق فاروق لابن قيسون (the tiryāq fārūq of Ibn Qaysūn). Surrounding the title on folio 1a there are later notes presenting three magical procedures for gaining protection and well-being, one of them citing Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd (King Solomon son of David). On the front pastedown, in addition to the UAM entry number, there are Turkish recipes, medical notes and pious phrases; on the back pastedown there are two recipes, one for skin conditions and leprosy (judhām). On the paper lining of the envelope flap there are four invocations (yā kāfī, etc.) that are said, on the authority of al-Būnī (d. c. 622/1225), to be useful for procuring a livelihood and wealth. A Latin note on folio 1b states that the volume contains commentaries on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. — 1518 MS. Huntington 359