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Field Data
Collection Masterpieces of the non-Western book
filename oulis2009-coy0002
Folio or page fol. 2b
Caption A 'portrait' of Dioscorides. A later reader has annotated the illustration.
Detail (dimensions) 246 x 166 mm. (page)
Conditions of Access for Image By permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
sort order 20
Shelfmark MS. Arab. d.138
Description The Materia medica consists of five books on medicinal substances. This copy contains only the last three books (maqālahs) of the treatise, of which Books 3 and 4 cover herbs and roots, and Book 5 wines &c. The copy was completed on 25 Dhu al Hijjah 637 AH (17 July 1240 CE) by al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Nashawī at al-Madrasah al-Nizāmīyah, presumably in Baghdad, though madrasahs of the same name occur in other cities.
Title De materia medica. Book 3-5
Type of Object manuscript
Place of origin Baghdad?
Dimensions 246 x 166 mm
Date of Origin 1240
Author Dioscorides of Anazarbus (d. ca. 90)
Class Arabic
Class medical
Language Arabic
Keywords manuscript pages
Collection Oriental
Collection Doctrina Arabum

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Collection Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Shelfmark MS. Ashmole 1462
Type of object manuscript
Material parchment
Page size 304 x 206 mm
Author (if known) Ps.- Dioscorides
Title text De herbis feminis.
Country or nationality of origin English
Place of origin North (?)
Date 12th century, late
Folio or page no. fol. 067r
Whole page or detail detail
Image description Plant-illustrations: Adiantos, Mandragora feminea.
Roll title Medical and plant illustrations.
Roll # 173D
Frame # 14