From an Arabic translation of De Materia Medica by Discorides, copied by Abdullah ibn al-Fadl Iraq, probably Baghdad, AH 621 (1224 CE) Purchase F1932.20 and F1938.1 De Materia Medica, a five-volume work by the ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides (C. 40-90 CE), was one of the first scientific texts to be translated from Greek into Arabic in ninth-century Iraq. In contrast to the original Greek copies that include relatively simple depictions of the plants, the Arabic versions introduce illustrations with animated human figures that are not mentioned in the text.Their inclusion lends a distinct narrative quality to the images. Most illustrated Arab copies of De Materia Medica were probably produced in thirteenth-century Baghdad and its vicinity
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