al-Insān fī al-ṭibb
Language: ara
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Nutrition; Arab Medicine
Other titles: Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ṭibb al-insānī; Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ṭibb
Description: Text is a treatise on the human body and how to maintain good health.  It explains that the body is composed of chemical elements, and deals with medication, nutrition, and diseases of various parts of the body.
Notes: Ms.

Paper:  yellowed cream, with watermarks, in moderate condition; termite damage near spine; damage from iron gall ink (cf. fol. 21).  Red on title page, text in black with some rubricated words.  Text framed by single red line; headings written in red in broad margins.  Some diacritical marks.  Marginal notes in later hand in violet pencil fol. 5a.  Catchwords on rectos.

Watermark on paper is post horn on shield with crown above, manufactured either in England or the Lowlands in the last half of the 18th century or the very early 19th century.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-56.

Naskhī script; 25 lines in written area, 18 x 7 cm.

Fol. 1a-30a; fol. 30b-31b blank.

Binding:  Modern cardboard, with leather spine.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-Arabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 43.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.