Bayan al-tibb is a medical textbook written by Hubaysh ibn Ibrahim Tiflisi in the 6th century AH. This book includes three parts: the first part is about medical sciences; the second is about simple foods and drugs; and the third concerns complex foods and drugs. The author dedicates Bayan al-tibb to Malik Shah, son of Qilij Arsalan Saljuqi. Six copies of this manuscript exist.
Lizzat al-nisa’ or Women's Pleasure, written by Ziyaʼ al-Din Nakhshabi in the 8th century AH. The book includes 10 parts, covering such topics as the manners of intercourse and foods and medicines with aphrodisiac effects. It contains illustrated images of different intercourse positions. The text ultimately derives from Sanskrit works such as the Kamasutra and Kokashastra. The style of illustrations would indicate that the manuscript is possibly of nineteenth-century Indian provenance.
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