cma-islamic-art: Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, Abdallah ibn
cma-islamic-art: Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, 1224, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic ArtThis page is one of about thirty folios, now dispersed among various public and private collections, originally belonging to a codex in the Suleymaniye Library, Aya Sofya, Istanbul. The manuscript, of which the major part is still in Istanbul, contains a colophon giving the name of the scribe – who may also have been the painter, ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Fadi – and the date, Rajab 621 (June-July, 1224).Size: Sheet: 33.1 x 24.5 cm (13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)Medium: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paperhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1977.91 -- source link
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