Cairo Genizah : Medical

Al-Majūsī

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Opening page of the ninth discourse of the first part of Al-Majūsī, Kāmil al-Ṣināʿa, including the title and the beginning of chapter 1 on internal diseases (ed. Būlāq 1877, I: 319-320). The title and author’s name are copied on f. 1v in alternating black and red ink. F. 1r contains a note, in a different hand from the main text (and in a less bookish style), noting that the muḥtasib of the city should ask the doctor about the number, the form and the place of the bones in the human body.</p>