ABSTRACT
The bibliographers mention two more MSS of the Zad al-
musajir, namely, Dublin, Chester Beatty 5224, fols. 50b-88a,
and Washington, Army Medical Library 92/1, fols. 1-73. Their
information, however, is incorrect. These MSS do not contain
Ibn al-Jazzar's Zild al-musa.fir as the bibliographers suggest, but
his Tibb al-fuqara'.29 The bibliographers were most probably
29 See Arberry, The Chester Beatty Library, A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts, vol. 7, 71; Sommer, A catalogue of Incunabula and MSS in the
misled by the introduction to the '[ibb al-fuqara' in which Ibn al-
Jazzar, as we saw above, first of all refers to the reason of the
composition of the Zad al-musafir, its merits and deficiencies,
and only then proceeds to a discussion of the necessity of the
composition of a new work, namely, the '[ibb al-fuqara '. 30
Besides the above-mentioned manuscripts, Ibn al-Jazzar's Zlld
al-musafir has been partly edited (Bks. 1-3) by Suwaysi-al-
Ra~II.31 This edition is, however, very unsatisfactory for the following reasons: 1. The authors did not try to establish the
relationship between the different MSS. 2. They based their
edition on MS Paris, which is a modem copy ofMS Dresden. 3.
