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The content consists of around 500 Arabic manuscripts dating from the 14th to the 20th century, sourced from the Wellcome Library’s holdings. The core of this collection relates to the great heritage of classical medicine, preserved, enlarged and commentated on throughout the Islamic world, stretching from Southern Spain to South and South-east Asia.

Part of the Wellcome collection of Arabic manuscripts constitute most of the Arabic medical manuscript collection of Dr Sami Ibrahim Haddād (1890-1957) the well-known Lebanese physician and historian of medicine (The “Haddad manuscript collection”). The collection includes works by well-known Islamic authors, such as al-Majusi, Ibn Sina and Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic (al-Isra'ili).

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• An Arabic cataloguing system
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