Three physicians preparing medicine, from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides

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This page is from an herbal, an illustrated book on the properties of plants. Herbals were among the first manuscripts of the Islamic world to include painted figural imagery. The lines in red are titles signaling how to make a particular kind of medicine. Initially written in...

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