ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), including parts of chapters 1 and 2 of the second discourse, on pathologies of the eye and eyelids (ed. Hyderabad 1964, pp. 69-71).Condition: Torn, holes, slightly stainedLayout: 19 lines
Part of the table of contents of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), including some text from the introduction.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 16 lines
Leaf from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), including parts of chapters 5 and 6 of the second discourse, dealing with surgical treatments of diseased eyelids and describing the operation of cutting a swelling with a lancet and a spoon before sewing the wound with thread; hardening of the eyelids and its treatment (ed. Hyderabad 1964, pp. 86-89).Condition: HolesLayout: 19 lines
Part of a bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic version of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), first discourse, chapters 16-17, parallel to ed. Hyderabad 1963, p. 29.Condition: Torn, rubbed, stainedLayout: 5-7 lines
Recto: jottings in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic, including an Arabic table of contents. Verso: text from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), from the second discourse, chapter 1 (ed. Hyderabad 1964, pp. 46-47).Condition: Torn, tiny holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: various lines (recto); 16 lines (verso)
Passages from the introduction of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), possibly a draft (ed. Hyderabad 1964, p. 3). Verso mentions ‘the Epistles of the brethren of purity’.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 13 lines (recto); 16 lines (verso) + marginalia
Leaves from the ophthalmological handbook of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), third discourse, chapter 27, on simples and their applications for curing eye ailments like eye ulcers, wounds, and roughness of the cornea. Simples mentioned include aloe, anemone, gum Arabic, and Roman bole. Parallel to ed. Hyderabad (1964) pp. 364-8.Condition: Badly rubbed, holesLayout: 11-15 lines
Leaves from the ophthalmological handbook of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’). They contain the conclusion of the first discourse on the anatomy of the eye and a table of contents of chapters 1-7 of the second discourse on the basics of intervention on the eye, rules that the physician has to follow when dealing with eye problems, on the number of eye illnesses, and different kinds of cures. Cfr. ed. Hyderabad (1964), pp. 36-40.Condition: Torn, holes slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 15-19 lines
Draft of the opening page of a copy of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’). The author's name is given on recto, line 12. Beginning of the first discourse on the anatomy on the eye.Condition: Torn, slightly stainedLayout: 17 lines (recto); 15 lines (verso)
Leaf from the ophthalmological handbook of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’), third discourse, chapter 27, describing excessive weeping from the eye and remedies that include Armenian bole and massages to the head with olive oil. Parallel with ed. Hyderabad (1964), pp. 368-9. The text on verso is badly rubbed and illegible.Condition: Holes, badly rubbedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 21 lines (verso)