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<dl><dd>35 leaves, bound, (24-25 lines; leaf 1a blank) : 18 cm</dd>
<dd>Manuscript</dd>
<dd>Arabic</dd>
<dd>Title given near start of text (fol. 2b lines 1-2); a shorter form given on the title page (fol. 2a): Kitāb Natījat al-fikar fī amrāḍ al-baṣar</dd>
<dd>The date of the copy is given in the colophon (fol. 35b [old 92b]; the year could be read as either 907 or 707; Sommer (Schullian &amp; Sommer. Incun. &amp; MSS.), p. 313, records it as 907, while Mayer, C. F., Bull. Hist. Med., 11 (1942), p. 214, records it as 707 [1308]; the year 907 seems more likely given the general appearance of the manuscript; no scribe given</dd>
<dd>Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda who bought it in Tanta, Egypt (ELS 2376)</dd>
<dd>This manuscript was used as one of five forming the basis of a German translation and commentary of the treatise by Hans-Dieter Bischoff, Das Ergebnis des Nachdenkens über die Behandlung der Augenkrankheiten von Fath ad-Dīn al-Qaisī. (Europäische Hochschulschriften; Asiastische und Afrikanische Studien, no. 27) Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 1988</dd>
<dd>This copy was at one time apparently part of another volume, for the folios have been numbered in Arabic numerals (beginning with the second folio of the volume) from 61 to 92; volume recently renumbered in Western numerals</dd>
<dd>A diagram representing stages of visual acuity, drawn in red and black ink, is on fol. 23b (old numbering, fol. 78b)</dd>
<dd>Catchwords, rubrications, red overlinings; fols. 5-8 are in a different hand, with the margins indicated with penciled lines</dd>
<dd>Marginalia in several hands, some emending text</dd>
<dd>Paper is thick, opaque; laid lines barely visible; some folios repaired; folios have been trimmed</dd>
<dd>Bound in modern library binding of tan leather; modern paper pastedowns and endpapers</dd>
<dd>Described in: Schullian &amp; Sommer. Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS., 1950, A48; Mayer, C.F. Bull. Hist. Med., 11 (1942), p. 214</dd>
<dd>This is a complete copy in 17 chapters (bāb) of a treatise on eye diseases written by al-Qaysī, who flourished as chief physician in Cairo 1240-1249. The chapters include information on the pathology of the diseases of the eyes, cornea (qarnīyah), retina (shabakīyah), choroid (mashīmīyah), vitreous (zujājīyah), iris (ʻinabīyah) and hygienic measures</dd>
<dd>Fol. 1a is blank; fol. 1b contains a poem and misc. notes; a later astrological chart giving zodiacal signs and elements has been added to the title page (fol. 2a) along with misc. notes</dd>
<dd>Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20190703</dd>
<dd>digitized. 2019</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Eye Diseases; Medicine, Arabic</div>
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Qaysī, Fatḥ al-Dīn ibn ʻUthmān ibn Hibat Allāh</div>
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