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"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

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"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl

Date
dated A.H. 621 / 1224 CE
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions
H. 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm) W. 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Object type
Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Classification
Codices
Country
Iraq
Object number
57.51.21
Credit line
Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956
Original Met record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Medicine

The Met object ID 451400. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.