"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
Unknown Artist
Figural book painting started in the Islamic world as an art form in the late Abbasid Iraq of the 13th century. The translation of a Greek manuscript shows a Physian preparing an elixir.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1913
Dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
33.2cm
13.152.6
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