The volume contains 169 folios. Folio 118b has a table of contents written by a tenth/sixteenth-century hand for the second item in the volume. A table of contents for the first item is written by the same hand on the front pastedown, which also has a one-line Karshūnī note reading Kitāb Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, as well as Latin notes regarding the nature of the two main items in the volume, a Latin version of the opening of the first aphorism, and the date 20 March 1667. Folio 167a−b has a short discourse by one Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭurays al-mutaṭabbib, written in a large and fairly early hand with many ligatures and very few dots, in which he says that the most noble of books on the medical arts is the Aphorisms of Hippocrates along with the Taqdimat al-maʿrifah (by al-Dakhwār, d. 628/1230), and that he immersed himself also in the Kitāb al-Nīlīyah by Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī (d. 420/1029) and the Kitāb al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt of al-Samarqandī (d. 619/1222), amongst others. Folio 169ab is blank except for pagination in Arabic numerals. Karshūnī notes providing subject headings occur on folios 89a (al-ṣudāʿ, headache), 133a (fī al-istisqāʾ, on dropsy), 164a (fī al-buḥrānāt, on crises), and 165a (al-ruʿāf al-radī, a persistent nosebleed). — bef. 1369 [13th cent.?]

Title

The volume contains 169 folios. Folio 118b has a table of contents written by a tenth/sixteenth-century hand for the second item in the volume. A table of contents for the first item is written by the same hand on the front pastedown, which also has a one-line Karshūnī note reading Kitāb Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, as well as Latin notes regarding the nature of the two main items in the volume, a Latin version of the opening of the first aphorism, and the date 20 March 1667. Folio 167a−b has a short discourse by one Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭurays al-mutaṭabbib, written in a large and fairly early hand with many ligatures and very few dots, in which he says that the most noble of books on the medical arts is the Aphorisms of Hippocrates along with the Taqdimat al-maʿrifah (by al-Dakhwār, d. 628/1230), and that he immersed himself also in the Kitāb al-Nīlīyah by Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī (d. 420/1029) and the Kitāb al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt of al-Samarqandī (d. 619/1222), amongst others. Folio 169ab is blank except for pagination in Arabic numerals. Karshūnī notes providing subject headings occur on folios 89a (al-ṣudāʿ, headache), 133a (fī al-istisqāʾ, on dropsy), 164a (fī al-buḥrānāt, on crises), and 165a (al-ruʿāf al-radī, a persistent nosebleed). — bef. 1369 [13th cent.?]

Shelfmark

MS. Thurston 10

Date

bef. 1369 [13th cent.?]

Language

Arabic

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

118 ff. 48 ff.

Acquisition

The volume was given to the Bodleian on 20 March 1667by an unknown donor. Though now shelved as part of the collection of Willian Thurston(a merchant of London, of whom little is known), the collection which bears his name consists of forty manuscripts of which only five, acquired in 1661, were actually given by Thurston. Former shelfmark: Thurston 1977,10

Provenance

On folio 1a, the title page for the first item, there are six owners’ notes. What appears to be the earliest is now defaced and illegible. One note, dated Muḥarram 7[6]1 (November 1359), has the name defaced but ultraviolet light reveals it to be Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-muʿtaraf bi-Ibn al-Ṭurays; the reading of the second number in the year is uncertain. Another note, transferring ownership to al-Jazarī al-Masīḥī, is dated 863/ 1458−9; on folio 119a an owner’s note bearing the same date gives the owner as ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ṣāḥib Nūr al-Dīn ibn ʿĪsá al-Jazarī and is pasted over an earlier entry with the name Ibn al-Ṭurays. A third note, possibly also by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (Ibn al-Ṭurays), is apparently dated 16 Shaʿbān 861 [9 July 1457], though the Arabic word for 800 is unclear. A fourth note transfers ownership to an unnamed bishop (usquf) of three sees (thalāth karāsīy) in the year 995/ 1586−7, also given as 1898 of the Alexandrian era; on folio 119a a similar note of ownership is recorded in which the three sees of the bishopric are specified as Amid, Mārdīn, and Tyre. The writer of the two notes dated 995/1586−7 appears to have also written the three tables of contents in the volume. On folio 1a there are also two illegible owners’ stamps and a brief note in Italian.

Subject

Medicine