The volume consists of 244 folios. Folio 225a has a recipe to stop nosebleed. Folio 244a has a khawāṣṣ recipe and an owner’s note (different hand) while on 224b there is an obliterated ex libris, some pious phrases, and pen practices (some possibly Karshūnī).There are three items in the volume, two of them medical.

Title

The volume consists of 244 folios. Folio 225a has a recipe to stop nosebleed. Folio 244a has a khawāṣṣ recipe and an owner’s note (different hand) while on 224b there is an obliterated ex libris, some pious phrases, and pen practices (some possibly Karshūnī).There are three items in the volume, two of them medical.

Shelfmark

MS. Huntington 370

Language

Arabic

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

244 folios. [lacking begining]

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Provenance

On folio 224b Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qalīs [?] wrote a marginal note dated in the year 888/1483−4. On folio 244a there is another owner’s note, written upside down, pertaining to Nīqūlā Ibn Yūsuf(possibly the son of the person whose study note was written on folio 224b); this was dated the month of Tishrīn 1067 (either Oct. or Nov. 1656).

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Subject

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Medicine, Arab