Author
Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d.1328 or 9
Subject
Mathematics, Medicine
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
21 fols. 2 fols. 27 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 9 ff.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
MS. Selden superius 44
Record ID
1746
Library Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Notes
The volume contains 65 leaves. Folio 54a is blank. Folio 22 has been cut out from the volume and is now missing except for a 30 mm strip still attached in the gutter. Folio 23 is blank. Folios 24a–25b are bound in upside down in the volume. Folio 26 is blank except for two lines of casually written poetry; folio 27a is blank. Folio 57a is a later fihrist to the fragment comprising item 6; folio 56b is blank. The two front and two back endleaves are blank, except for the UAM entry number.
Sample Text
In the name of God...this is the book of chapters by Hippocrates the Wise. It contains seven articles, each of which has chapters. The first article: A. Life is short, industry is long, time is short, judgment is difficult, and experience is dangerous. You should not limit yourself to aiming to do what you should without it being what the sick person and those attending him do as well, and the things that come from outside B. if it is what is excreted from the body when the stomach is released.
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Oriental Manuscripts Selden superius Collection
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