The work describes the use of Theriac, an ancient medicinal compound initially used as a cure for the bites of poisonous snakes.

Two illustrated manuscript copies are extant, adorned with beautiful miniatures revealing of the social context at the time of their publication.

[2] The dignitaries described in the miniatures wear the Turkic dress: the stiff coat with diagonal closing and arm bands.

[1] The ruler and attendants are similar to those found in the decorated Palmer Cup and in metalworks from the Mosul or North Jazira area, with their typical sharbush type of headgear and robes.

[9][10] The frontispiece shows an intricate courtly scene with figured in Turkic dress: a central king resembling Badr al-Din Lu'lu' (wearing a fur-trimmed, patterned qabā' maftūḥ, with elbow-length tirāz sleeves and on his head a sharbush hat), surrounded by numerous attendants (most of them wearing the aqbiya turkiyya Turkic coat and kalawta caps).