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

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Abstract: 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).
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Alternative title	De materia medica
Type of resource	mixed material
Form	paper; Laid paper
Place	Iran
Date created	1210
Issuance	monographic
Digital origin	reformatted digital
Foliation Statement	Foliation: 4
Dimensions	29.5 x 20.0cm
Writing Block	24.0 x 14.5cm
Foliation	Foliated 237-241
Layout: Columns	1
Layout: Ruled Lines	19
Hand Note	Written in vocalized naskh script

Author	Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos

Language	The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Decoration Note	fol. W.750Aa Wild cucumber Illustration This illustration depicts wild cucumber (qathāʾ al-barrī or qathāʾ al-ḥimār).
Decoration Note	fol. W.750Ab Text page Text page
Decoration Note	fol. W.750Ba Mezereon (spurge-olive) Illustration This illustration depicts mezereon (spurge-olive) (khāmālā, māzaryūn, fūrūs).
Decoration Note	fol. W.750Ca Thymelaea (spurge-laurel) Illustration This illustration depicts thymelaea (spurge-laurel) (thūmālā, khāmālā).
Decoration Note	fol. W.750Da A type of thymelaea called al-sarwī Illustration
Decoration Note	fol. W.750Db A type of thymelaea called īlyūsqūfīnūs Illustration
Date Note	7th century AH / 13th CE
Acquisition	Museum purchase
Referenced by
Contains	Title De materia medica Locus fols. W.750Aa - W.750Db Catalog Note(s) It is not certain from which parent manuscript these leaves derive, although a copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (originally Collection Vignier-Densmore), which has the same dimensions, has been cited as a possibility.
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/qd588ws0571
Location	The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
Location	W.750

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