Pages from a book on ophthalmology, describing various recipes for the treatment of diseases of the eye. Substances include copper, soap, arsenic, animal fat, urine, soda, camphor and vinegar.
Medical text dealing with symptoms such as fever, forgetfulness, feeling cold, white bile, and weakness of the nerves and senses. Honey is mentioned. In a different colour of ink towards the bottom of verso, there is a folk remedy for pregnant mothers, utilising goose fat and snakeskin, probably...
Pages from a medical book, mentioning authorities such as Galen, and mainly dealing with medical problems of the head. Substances mentioned include sweet violet oil, quince, flea-wort seeds, bottle gourd water and watermelon water.
Fragment from a medical work dealing with diseases of the eye, including ailments such as inflammation of the eyelid and ophthalmia, and recipes for collyria and creams. Substances mentioned include gum Arabic, burnt copper, sugar, saffron, opium and cinnabar.
First page of a medical work by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, entitled Book of Introduction (Kitāb al-Mudḵal). Identified in Jacquart (1997: 213) as Masa'il fi l-tibb, and matches T-S NS 164.192
Quasi-medical book, with recipes mentioning white alum, apple preserve, rhubarb preserve, rose, unripe grapes and bamboo ashes. There are magical symbols.
Page from a medical work, presenting medical problems, such as diabetes, and recipes for their treatment. Substances mentioned include gum Arabic, Armenian tin, potion of unripe grape, rose, vinegar, rue, hematite and ceruse.
Recto: prescription mentioning medicinal substances and their measures. Verso, written transversely in relation to recto, contains an Arabic document and, inverted in relation to the Arabic, the continuation of the prescription from recto.