Script: Written in naskh script in black ink in two hands; partially pointed, further points added by a later hand. Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 869 (1464). Ms. codex. Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla, border and foliate frame; plain paper doublure. Title from colophon (f. 107v). Collation: Paper, 108; 1¹² 2⁸ 3¹² 4⁴ 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁸ 10-11¹²; [1-85, i, 86-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso. Layout: Written in 19 long lines. Decoration: Numerous illustrations of surgical instruments in black or black and red ink; rubrications in red. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 Apr. 2002, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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