"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Translator 'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl

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Figural book painting started in the Islamic world as an art form in the late Abbasid Iraq of the 13th century. The translation of a Greek manuscript shows a Physian preparing an elixir.

"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides, 'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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