Kitab-al-Ḥašā'iš (Book of Herbs)

Kitāb-al-Ḥašā’iš (Libro delle erbe)

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Medicine in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition
Provenance:

Baghdad, 1224

Arabic translation of De Materia medica by Dioscorides (1st c)
Miniature depicting the Greek physician Erasistrate (m. 280 BC) in the company of an assistant