The opening essay on the pre-eminence of medicine which precedes a commentary on the didactic medical poem of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) that was written by Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī (d. 1471/876). The copy was made in 1630/1040 from an exemplar copied in 1487/892, about ten years after the author's death.

The opening of the popular didactic poem on medicine by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). The copy is undated, possibly 17th century.

The opening of a commentary on Ibn Sīnā's [Avicenna's] famous poem written by ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Haydūr, who died in 1413/816 H. This is the only recorded copy of this commentary. It is undated and was made in North Africa probably in the 18th century.

The colophon from a copy of Ibn Rushd's (Averroes) 12th-century commentary on the Poem on Medicine written by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). According to this colophon, the copy was completed on the 16th of the month of Dhu al-Qa‘dah 1005 [1 July 1597] from a copy finished on 8 Sha‘ban 633 [15 May 1236].

The opening of a Arabic didactic poem on general medical care written by Ibn al-Khaṭīb, an important vizier and scholar in Granada in the middle of the 14th century. The copy is undated, possibly of the early 19th-century.

A sample folio from the late 14th-century Persian metric compendium on therapeutics by Shihāb al-Dīn Nāgawrī. The copy is undated, possibly 17th century.

The opening, with title, of the versification of a treatise on the maintenance of health. The name of the versifier is unknown. The original Persian treatise may have been by Jurjānī (d. ca. 1136/531 H), whose essay by that title is otherwise lost. The copy is undated but must predate 1791, when an owner's stamp was added.

An opening from the Persian didactic poem by ‘Alī ibn shaykh Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, who may have lived in the late 17th century. The subjects under discussion are "the malady of the elephant" (da' al-fil, or elephantiasis) and varicosity (al-sifaq al-dawali). The copy is undated but must predate 1791, when an owner's stamp was added.