There is a published catalog to the mss.: A descriptive list of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science at the University of California, Los Angeles / by A.Z. Iskandar (Leiden : Brill, 1984)

Entire collection microfilmed as part of a National Library of Medicine preservation project: the preservation master negative is at NLM; the printing master negative is at the University of California's Southern Regional Library Facility; a positive copy is housed at the UCLA Biomedical Library's History Division.

Microfilm. Los Angeles, Calif. : University of California, Reprographic Service, 1990-1991. 120 microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm.

The original mss. were formerly a part of: Near Eastern manuscript collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and assigned accession no. 1062. Transferred to the History Division of the UCLA Biomedical Library on May 2, 1986.