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Tag: medical
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Bifolio from a narrow volume, an Arabic treatise that seems to be on medicine or regimen.
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise.
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
From a medical treatise in Arabic, including various recipes for a medicinal powder (safūf). Headers in red ink.
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
Four pages of an Arabic medical textbook.
Several medical recipes in Arabic by the title "صفة معجون نافع للارواح".
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise, giving prescriptions.
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise.
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise, discussing temperaments and anatomy.
Recto: A page from Mūjiz al-Qānūn by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288). Verso: Alphabetical jottings in Hebrew, a doodle, and "Hippocrates: ars longa vita brevis" (ابقراط: العمر قصير والصناعة طويلة).
Bifolium from the section on dissection/anatomy in Avicenna's Canon, including chapter 10 on the the larynx (al-ḥanjara) and chapter 17 on the muscles of the upper arm (ʿaḍl ḥarakat al-sāʿid).
Page from al-Rāzī's al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb.
8 pages from an Arabic medical treatise.
Page from an Arabic medical treatise, citing Ḥunayn.
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
A leaf from a work on sexual medicine & aphrodisiacs in Arabic.
A leaf from Avicenna's Qanun, including the chapter on fattening any organ, such as arm, leg, nose, lips, or penis.
See also BL OR 5547.3. Recto: two blocks of text in Arabic. The bottom one at least is a medical prescription (يوجذ على بركة الله وعونه) using ingredients such as chebulic myrobalan (اهليلج كابلي) and lavender (اسطوخوذس). Verso: upper block of text is Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, giving detailed instructions for how a cantor should recite certain verses and prayers. Lower block of text is another Arabic technical text, conceivably from a work on alchemy, as in the verso of BL OR 5547.3 (by the same writer).The overlap of the Hebrew script with the Arabic technical passage (see the title of the section, باب אל...) suggests that the same writer is responsible for the the entirety of verso. ASE.
Recto: a medical prescription in Arabic for ʿAlī b. [..]Allah. Verso: scribal practice in Hebrew. ASE.
