This catalogue comprises full descriptions of the Arabic manuscripts which entered the Wellcome collections in 1986. A new type of the catalogue entry makes the book useful for specialists in various fields from conservators to historians of medical ethics.

Nikolaj Serikoff, Ph.D. (1988) in Medieval History, Institute of Oriental Studies, Leningrad, is Asian Collections Librarian at the Wellcome Library (London) and starshii nauchnyi sotrudnik at the Institute of Oriental Studies (Moscow). He published extensively on the Oriental manuscript tradition and the history of Byzantine and Arabic contacts.