Physician Preparing An Elixir, 13th
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Physician Preparing An Elixir, 13th
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Physician preparing an elixir," from a 13th century manuscript of an Arabic translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides. Published 1224. Calligrapher Abdullah ibn al-Fadl. Baghdad, Iraq. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. One of the most influential medical treatises handed down to Muslims was De Materia Medica, by a first-century AD Greek physician in Cilicia (southern Anatolia).
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