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Walters Ms. W.750, Four leaves from the Arabic version of Dioscorides' De materia medica

Walters Ms. W.750, Four leaves from the Arabic version of Dioscorides' De materia medica

De materia medica

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos (author)

These are four consecutive leaves (numbered fols. 237-241) from an illustrated manuscript of the Arabic version of De materia medica by Dioscorides, copied in the seventh century AH / thirteenth CE in Iran. Pedanius Dioscorides wrote his treatise on medicinal plants in the first century CE. It was translated into Syriac and then Arabic in Baghdad in the third century AH / ninth CE. De materia medica by Dioscorides was one of the earliest scientific manuscripts to be translated from Greek to Arabic. The Walters' leaves illustrate five plants: wild cucumber, mezereon (spurge-olive), and three varieties of thymelaea (spurge-laurel). For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W750/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

fol. W.750Aa Wild cucumber Illustration This illustration depicts wild cucumber (qathāʾ al-barrī or qathāʾ al-ḥimār).

fol. W.750Ab Text page Text page

fol. W.750Ba Mezereon (spurge-olive) Illustration This illustration depicts mezereon (spurge-olive) (khāmālā, māzaryūn, fūrūs).

fol. W.750Ca Thymelaea (spurge-laurel) Illustration This illustration depicts thymelaea (spurge-laurel) (thūmālā, khāmālā).

fol. W.750Da A type of thymelaea called al-sarwī Illustration

fol. W.750Db A type of thymelaea called īlyūsqūfīnūs Illustration

7th century AH / 13th CE

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