1. The seven manuscripts cited by the editors in this edition are Oxford, Bodleian ms Huntington 156 and ms Marsh 54, the Khuda Bakhsh Library ms 2146 at Patna (= Bankipore 17), in Istanbul three at the Süleymaniye Library, ms Haci Besir Ag̬a 503, ms Haci Besir Ag̬a 502 and ms Veliüddin 2491, and one at Topkapi Sarayi ms Ahmet iii 1990. The following additional manuscripts are known to contain all or part of the surgical chapter: University of Tübingen ms Or. 91 (formerly in Berlin); Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Arabe ms 2953, ms 6824 and ms 6461 (the last is incomplete); Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. N.F. 476A; Gotha, Landesbibliothek Arab ms 1275 (= 1989 Pertsch); Leiden, Cod. Or. 2540 and Cod. Or. 1338 (both fragmentary); Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Ali Emiri Arabi ms 2854; Escorial Arabe ms 876 (incomplete); Rabat, Bibliothèque Générale, ms D 1427 (fragmentary) and ms 21J (= Marrakush ms 21J; complete and dated ad 1213); Granada, Bibliotheca de Sacro Monte de Granada Asin Palacies, no number assigned; Tehran, private collection of Majid Movaghar, copy written about ad 1311; Hyderabad, Asafiyya Library ms 1298; Oxford, Bodleian Or. 491 (fragmentary); Birmingham, Selly Oak Colleges Library, Mingana iv, 932; and Dublin, Chester Beatty Arab. ms 4932 and M. 4009. Most of these manuscripts are described by Hamarneh Sami K. and Sonnedecker Glenn in A Pharmaceutical View of Abulcasis al-Zahrāwī in Moorish Spain (Leiden, 1963), 137–47.
2. Anatomie und Chirurgie des Schädels, insbesondere der Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenkrankheiten nach Ibn al-Quff
3. See pp. 484–8 of the book under review, where the editors have compared the drawings in the two Oxford Arabic manuscripts of Albucasis with the Greco-Roman vaginal specula pictured and discussed by Milne J. S., Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times (Oxford, 1907).