Contents of volume 10: Leonard C. Chiarelli, 'A preliminary study on the origins of medical licensing in the medieval Mediterranean'; Annetta Ilieva, 'Reassessing the Crusade of Nikopolis (1396): a view from within'; Ian Richard Netton, 'Neo-orientalists on a new crusade: hope, renewal and salvation'; Eleanor A. Congdon, 'Private Venetian ships and shipping, c. 1400'; Charles Dalli, 'Medieval island societies: reassessing insulation in a Central Mediterranean context'; Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, 'El "Kitab Wasf Firdaws" de Ibn Aabib: exégesis y fuentes'; Gloria Mound, 'The discovery of thirteenth and fourteenth-century manuscripts: Jews of Palma de Mallorca'; Book Reviews; 'Index of Al-Masaq (1988-1998) by article, author and books reviewed', compiled by Jane Scott.