Badr al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Qādī al-Baʻlabakkī, fl. ca. 1232

The volume contains 133 leaves. Folios 128b, 129ab, and 130b are blank. Folio 128a has a later note classifying twenty-five worldly activities (اعمال الدنيا). Folio 130a contains a fragment of the books of wisdom in the Septuagint, quoting Solomon the Wise (سليمان الكلي الحكمة) and the book of Ḥunayn [= Yashūʿ] ibn Shīrāḥ [the book Sirach]; see Graf, GCAL, i. 128. Folio 131ab is another fragment from the wisdom literature, while folios 132a−133b contain the moral narrative of an unnamed ruler who seeks the counsel of his wazir regarding the state of his soul following his necessary departure from this world, possibly composed by a monk (al-rāhib, folio 133b). — 1299?* MS. Bodl. Or. 231

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.?] MS. Thurston 10